BRUCE PIASECKI - NYTimes Bestselling Author of Doing More With One Life

BRUCE PIASECKI - NYTimes Bestselling Author of Doing More With One Life

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NYT Bestselling Author of Doing More with One Life
Founder of AHC Group

I concluded that stress is good for a creative person and that we, in fact, flower under stress. We bloom under stress: A father's death. He would never finish this thought path because he had so little to go on. For decades, he had blamed everyone he knew for his father’s death. Having been raised by his grandmother, mother, and sister, he had to invent his masculinity—from muscle and bone to making his place in a world of markets.

An afternoon of stories, conversation & music with Bruce Piasecki & Gordon Lambert at Caffè Lena

An afternoon of stories, conversation & music with Bruce Piasecki & Gordon Lambert at Caffè Lena

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Join New York Times bestselling author Bruce Piasecki at Caffè Lena for an afternoon of stories, memories and interactive conversation. He will also dive into personal narratives about book tours of Australia, his personal conversations with Tom Wolfe, his admiration for Bob Dylan and other master storytellers, artists, and sustainability leaders, and read from his latest book, A New Way to Wealth. Musical accompaniment for this episode is provided by Gordon Lambert. Piasecki has dedicated 40 years of his life to climate solutions with years of experience working for The White House, helping big corporations get on board his fight for climate solutions, and asking his audience to be part of the discussion.

Highlights - Bruce Piasecki - Founder, AHC Group - NYTimes Bestselling Author

Highlights - Bruce Piasecki - Founder, AHC Group - NYTimes Bestselling Author

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NYT Bestselling Author of A New Way to Wealth · Doing More with Teams
Founder of AHC Group

Each day you wake up you make decisions that shape your own fate, your ascent, position, your own creativity. I like to think of it as fate is a personal construct. When I was at Cornell they had me teach an Emerson essay called “Freedom and Fate” where he said that fate was so overwhelming in some traditions that it’s as though we were each involved in a shipwreck and we were each thrown off the ship and all we had a chance to do was look at each other. I’ve come to believe is that not only is the future near you can design your own life.

Bruce Piasecki - NYTimes Bestselling Author of “A New Way to Wealth” - Founder, AHC Group

Bruce Piasecki - NYTimes Bestselling Author of “A New Way to Wealth” - Founder, AHC Group

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NYT Bestselling Author of A New Way to Wealth · Doing More with Teams
Founder of AHC Group

Each day you wake up you make decisions that shape your own fate, your ascent, position, your own creativity. I like to think of it as fate is a personal construct. When I was at Cornell they had me teach an Emerson essay called “Freedom and Fate” where he said that fate was so overwhelming in some traditions that it’s as though we were each involved in a shipwreck and we were each thrown off the ship and all we had a chance to do was look at each other. I’ve come to believe is that not only is the future near you can design your own life.

Bruce Piasecki - Selected Readings from "World Inc", "Missing Persons", "2040: A Fable" and other books

Bruce Piasecki - Selected Readings from "World Inc", "Missing Persons", "2040: A Fable" and other books

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NYT Bestselling Author of A New Way to Wealth · Doing More with Teams
Founder of AHC Group

Each day you wake up you make decisions that shape your own fate, your ascent, position, your own creativity. I like to think of it as fate is a personal construct. When I was at Cornell they had me teach an Emerson essay called “Freedom and Fate” where he said that fate was so overwhelming in some traditions that it’s as though we were each involved in a shipwreck and we were each thrown off the ship and all we had a chance to do was look at each other. I’ve come to believe is that not only is the future near you can design your own life.

James and Deborah Fallows, Co-authors of “Our Towns”, Founders of Our Towns Civic Foundation

James and Deborah Fallows, Co-authors of “Our Towns”, Founders of Our Towns Civic Foundation

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Journalists
Co-authors of Our Towns · Founders of Our Towns Civic Foundation

It was the accumulation of a month or two of travel in South Dakota and then in rural Vermont, and rural Michigan. We thought, we're seeing things that we never read about, that just by following the newspapers, we know all about New York and D.C., but we don't know anything about Sioux Falls.

We don't know anything about Howell, Michigan, and it's so interesting. And I think what I'm building to on the timeliness, it was and is, I think, a moment in American history where people have a sort of caricatured view of the America that's not directly in their experience. They think, okay, where I am is all right, but those people out there are crazy. Those people out there are extreme. Those people out there, we don't understand them.


Daniel Sherrell, Author of "Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World”

Daniel Sherrell, Author of "Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World”

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Author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Organizer · Campaign Director Climate Jobs National Resource Center

It felt to me that if I wasn't able to figure out a way to orchestrate a genuine emotional encounter for myself with the enormity of this thing I was meant to be taking action on, then something in me was going to break, and I just wouldn't be able to keep doing the work. So, there was never a point where it's like, I'm going to write a book, but I did turn to the written word, almost little diary entries, to make psychological and spiritual sense of the crisis that I was dealing with in a thin way every day.