Article: Make a Difference! How to Identify Your "Final Cause" and Become the Hero of Your Own Great Myth.(Essay)

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Spirituality & Health Magazine
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March 1, 2009
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Byline: Tad Waddington, Ph.D.

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A traveler meets three bricklayers and asks each what he's doing. The first mutters, "Working for a buck." The second states, "Making a wall." The third proclaims, "Building a school that will educate children for generations." Each bricklayer is doing the same work, yet the work of the third the bricklayer working for the future is imbued with more meaning than the work of the other two. I like to call this a final cause.

In my book, Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work (Agate, 2007), I suggest that you can make a contribution to the world by working or by making ...

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