Show Notes
Independent Study is a series of bonus episodes to accompany the interviews on Dialectic. I read essays and other writing that has influenced me.
"Personal Renewal" was given as a speech by John W. Gardner to a group at McKinsey & Company in Phoenix, AZ on November 10, 1990. The transcript is available at PBS here.
John W. Gardner was a public servant, educator, and public reformer. Learn more at PBS.
This is one of my favorite things I've ever read. I hope you are similarly inspired.
Transcript and audio for the also mentioned David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" available here, from Farnam Street.
https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/sections/writings_speech_1.html
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