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Ep 102: Leadership & Human Genius—Erwin Raphael McManus

The Global Leadership Podcast

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The Greatest Stories in the World Should Actually Carry the Greatest Ideas

I am convinced that human ideals are the phantom pain of the soul. Human beings are actually motivated by ideals we have never experienced. We dream of a world without war, but we've only known a history with wars. How is it possible to even conceptualize something we've never experienced at all? I think it's interesting when people say to me, i can't believe in god because i've never seen him or seen proof of him. And i wonder, how in the world do you believe in love or in peace or in justice, because human history violates all those ideals. That the greatest stories in the world should actually carry the greatest ideas that exist within us right now.

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