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#156 Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
A Different Kind of Story
I worked for a number of years with some colleagues, Michael Mead, who is one of the great mythologists of the world in the tradition of Joseph Campbell. And we did a series of retreats for kids coming out of street gangs in Los Angeles and Oakland and Chicago. We took a candle, put it in the center of a table, lit it, and said, would you go out in the parking lot and pick up a stone for every young person that you know who's been killed? Some of these kids came back with their hands full of stones; no young person should know that many dead people. I remember going into Google to work with the top, you know, vice presidents
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