Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World

by Chris Lowney

Each of us has a special purpose in life—do you know what yours is? In Heroic Living , best-selling author and former investment banker Chris Lowney combines the proven practices of Ignatian spirituality with his business expertise to help each of us discover our mighty purpose in life and develop a personal life strategy to achieve it. By merging Ignatian Spirituality with astute business knowledge, Lowney provides the tools and strategies needed to make practical, long-term life changes that move us away from our fractured, compartmentalized lives and toward the satisfaction and wholeness that each of us desires so deeply.

Genres: Spirituality

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2009

About the author

Chris Lowney chairs the board of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest healthcare/hospital systems with some $ 19 billion in assets. He is a one-time Jesuit seminarian who later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London until leaving the firm in 2001. He is a popular keynote speaker who has lectured in more than two-dozen countries on on leadership, business ethics, decision-making and other topics.

He is the author of four books. Heroic Leadership, a # 1 ranked bestseller of the CBPA, was named a finalist for a 2003 Book of the Year Award from ForeWord magazine, has been translated into eleven languages, and was named to the Commandant of the Marine Corps recommending reading list. He is also author of Heroic Living, and A Vanished World– Chris was featured in the PBS-aired documentary, “Cities of Light,” which echoed many of that book’s key themes. His latest work, Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads, has been called, “an invaluable gift,” and “a book for the ages.”

He served as volunteer founding president of Jesuit Commons, an innovative collaboration which offers online university education in refugee camps in Africa and elsewhere. He conceived and co-founded Contemplative Leaders in Action, an emerging leader formation program now active in a half-dozen cities. He founded Pilgrimage for Our Children’s Future, which funds education and healthcare projects in the developing world: to learn about or support that organization, visit www.pocf.org.

He is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University, where he also received his M.A. He is holder of five honorary Doctoral degrees.

Reviews

[Citra Rizcha Maya]

Mengingat, diperkirakan 640 juta anak di dunia tidak memiliki tempat berteduh yang layak; 140 juta anak tidak bersekolah; 90 juta anak kelaparan; 15 juta anak kehilangan orang tua karena AIDS. Ini hanyalah satu dari sekian masalah di dunia ini dan kita berkewajiban untuk sederhananya peduli, dan menjadikan dunia menjadi tempat lebih baik dimulai dari mempersiapkan diri serta lingkungan terdekat yang kita miliki.

Ad majorem Dei Glorian, demi kemulian yang lebih besar, begitulah inti yang diinginkan Heroic Living ini untuk disampaikan kepada pembacanya. Pembaca buku ini diharapkan tak hanya memiliki tujuan hidup tapi juga memiliki kemampuan mengubah dunia dengan cara mulia melalui pendekatan keyakinan. Akan ditemukan ajaran Ignasius Loyola, Dalai Lama, ajaran Islam hingga Kardinal Newman bahkan Bunda Teresa.

Chris Lowney menggugah nurani pembacanya melalui pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang diajukannya di dalam bukunya. Serta memberikan pandangan dan petunjuk agar menemukan langkah-langkah untuk mencapai tujuan di dalam kehidupan yang lebih bermakna.

Sebagai guru saya membutuhkan buku seperti ini karena jelas isinya bisa diteruskan kepada siswa sebagai ilmu yang mengandung banyak kebaikan.

Sebuah buku hebat dan inspiratif!

[Juan Camilo]

Amazing book, finding your own porpose and living for it, can make follow the correct way.

[Ernest]

Excellent introduction to the spiritual examen exercises. The goal of accomplishing a life of meaning is aided by daily activities based on a person's core spiritual beliefs. Deep questioning of one's beliefs and how one's daily life serves the greater purpose of living a life of service for others.

[Jeff Lampson]

An excellent follow up to Heroic Leadership for individuals seeking a more integrated, intentional and authentic life. Chris Lowney is so effective in making Ignatian approaches accessible and practical for living with grace and depth.

[Tiffany]

Took me a while to get through this, but I enjoyed it overall. I found it useful for my reflections and thoughts on day to day as well as the looking ahead.

[Siel Ju]

Only read this because I had to teach it.

[Anne Roat]

Seemed like a rehash of his first book...

[Sebastian Bobrowski]

Wow! amazing book about leadership in every day life!

[Cappy]

I'm not quite sure what this book is supposed to be, but there are moments when Lowney's rhetoric rises above his occasionally "self-helpy" tone to become something worth considering.

[Diego Eusse]

Un libro que se debe subrayar y aplicar día a día

[Mike]

A lot of great thinking points but a little too religious based for my personal liking.

[Jamie Partusch]

Excellent read. There were parts of the book that felt like were written directly to me.