Reading for Wisdom in an Information Age

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Pete begins by talking about reading for wisdom and not simply for information – suggesting we re-learn how to read - then shares a list of key books he has read in last six to twelve months.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Cazero.
0:05.6	I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:09.7	Great to be with you.
0:11.3	I'm sitting here in my office on the third floor of my house in Queens.
0:17.2	And good to be with you.
0:19.8	So our topic today is reading for wisdom in an information
0:24.5	age. Reading for wisdom in an information age. I'm asked regularly, you know, what are you
0:29.8	reading, Pete? And, you know, are there any books that I might recommend to them? But really,
0:37.4	that that question necessitates a few comments before answering it.
0:42.5	Because as a question, we have to answer first, which is this.
0:45.3	Many of us are consuming tons of information, reading lots of books, or listening through
0:51.0	audio to lots of books, or skimming them, and we're insatiably looking for material, for sermons, for talks, silver bullets of wisdom.
1:00.8	So the real issue is how do you read?
1:04.2	So before I share with you a number of important and different types of books that I've
1:10.0	been reading over the last six to
1:11.1	nine months. I want to share with you a few thoughts on reading. Reading as a leader. And because reading
1:19.7	is a way of being mentored. And we're not reading so much for information. We're reading for wisdom. We're seeking wisdom. We're seeking God.
1:33.1	And we're not trafficking necessarily in words, as the Desert Fathers call them.
1:40.2	And, you know, Proverbs 8-11 says it best.
1:42.9	Wisdom is more precious than jewels. Nothing else is so
1:46.8	worthy of desire. So we're not reading to get it, but actually to let it get us. In other
1:56.3	words, we read differently as leaders. Again, we're not reading just to get information, but to sometimes and often
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