Together with Will Wright
Together
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 25 minutes
Will Wright is CEO of a health coaching company which discovered the epidemic of loneliness before many others. “The biggest problem is the feeling of isolation you get when you don’t buy into what you’re doing or the culture, and you don’t have a healthy outlet to talk about it,” he said.
Jack Eason takes time to dive deeper into Will’s TEDx Talk. Will Wright was an expert in the ever-changing world of health care, where costs have been rising faster than inflation since the mid-60s.
At McKinsey, he traveled almost constantly, dissecting gigabytes of claims data to help insurance companies mitigate risk and squeeze more profits from the highly competitive health-care field.
He was good at it, too, though, then only in his early 30s, Wright was paying dearly for his success.
“The biggest problem is the feeling of isolation you get when you don’t buy into what you’re doing or the culture, and you don’t have a healthy outlet to talk about it,” he said.
More of his story can be found at https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017/04/before_building_company_helpin.html
Grab your copy of Jack Eason's latest book TOGETHER: Abandoning Loneliness for the Power of Community at https://www.jackeason.org/books/#loneliness
Statistics show that, despite our connected world--and partly because of it--we are lonelier than ever. Social media tricks us into thinking that we are engaged in genuine friendships, except we never quite get beyond that feeling of being outside someone else's life and looking in every so often at what they choose to show the world. Instead of intimacy we get little more than what amounts to digital small talk. But there is a solution.
With plenty of good humor and practical advice, Jack Eason invites you to discover the benefits of doing life together with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Grounding his message in Scripture, Eason helps you
- learn the obstacles to real community
- reimagine what real friendship looks like
- discover a place of true belonging
- and more
If you're tired of feeling lonely, this encouraging and community-building book is just what you need.
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