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Kelly Corrigan & Miroslav Volf / Experts at Means, Amateurs at Ends: Talking About Success & Flourishing at College

For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

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The Importance of Humanity in Success

I think success has been so long defined in a commercial society that there's this default idea of what someone means when they use that word. And so you're really asking people to reimagine a definition that could be more inclusive of success that is not measured in the typical terms. One of the examples that we gave is a story of Albert Schmea, who was a Hitler's architect. He succeeded beyond measure as an architect, but utterly failed as a human being. So the our success in our humanity to match be matched and married together with the success in whatever other endeavor we have.

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