{"id":304,"date":"2018-10-07T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/?p=304"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:05:32","slug":"response-to-ruiz-light-from-many-lamps-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/2018\/10\/07\/response-to-ruiz-light-from-many-lamps-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Ruiz &#8211; Light from Many Lamps &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruiz, thank you for a very thoughtful and perceptive <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/2018\/10\/07\/the-secret-to-happiness-is-something-to-do\/\">post<\/a><\/strong>. I particularly appreciated the integration of Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs as a means to unpack the John Burroughs\u2019s passage because apart from understanding that the \u201csecret\u201d is in \u201cdoing something\u201d, the measure or degree of that happiness, is directly proportional to what needs have already been met.\u00a0 Additionally, I agree with you completely as it relates to how the activity of work exerts itself upon a man\u2019s state of happiness, and more importantly, what transpires in his heart when that work vanishes. Looking back to the authors text, Burroughs (1951) states \u201cblessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart\u201d (p. 5); therefore, to the leader, this is a call of understanding and action to supplant the threat of idleness in those we lead, helping them discover meaning through task or voice.<\/p>\n<p>Matt<\/p>\n<p>Burroughs, J. (1951). The Secret of Happiness is Something to do. In L. E. Watson, <em>Light from Many Lamps<\/em> (pp. 3-7). New York: Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruiz, thank you for a very thoughtful and perceptive post. I particularly appreciated the integration of Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs as a means to unpack the John Burroughs\u2019s passage because apart from understanding that the \u201csecret\u201d is in \u201cdoing something\u201d, the measure or degree of that happiness, is directly proportional to what needs have already &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/2018\/10\/07\/response-to-ruiz-light-from-many-lamps-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to Ruiz &#8211; Light from Many Lamps &#8211; Part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,50],"tags":[49,51],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-2","tag-light-from-many-lamps","tag-unit-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}