Living in the Gift
Personal and collective transition from an age of scarcity and separation, to an age of abundance, community, and gift.
Course Content
Session 7: Motivations
In this session and the next we launch our exploration of working in the gift, by which I mean applying the lens of gift to our economic life, of business and work. We begin with what to me has been a very fruitful question: “Why do you even want to do that?” Part 1 explores some of the problematic “shadow” motives, and Part 2 some of the more honest motives for wanting to make this transition. I hope the material will be useful even if this particular issue is not up for you.
Session 7.1: Problematic Motivations
Session 7.2: Positive Motivations
Session Transcripts
Many thanks to Grimm Culhane, Vicki Bright, and Tyler Ehrlich for transcribing theses sessions!
Session 7.1 – Problematic Motivations (transcript)
Session 7.2 – Positive Motivations (transcript)
Discussion Forum
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