Your Dreams are Too Small | Johann D’Souza, PhD | Episode #364
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Johann D'Souza, PhD, has one stated goal for his approach to friendship: find the most magnanimous people alive. He means the rare ones who combine serious professional competence with an actual pursuit of virtue, and he says they are almost always lonely, because everyone around them wants to know why they don't just settle for mediocrity like a normal person. When he finds one, he tells them their dreams are good and also not big enough, then asks how the two of them can make that vision ten times larger. This is the same man who, three minutes earlier, called his own friendship not worth very much, which is when Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein stop the show to tell him they will hammer him every time he runs that bit. The conversion behind it was not an argument he lost. He was a lukewarm math major who didn't know the word tabernacle when he sat down in front of one in Rome, and what met him there was his own habitual evil and God's goodness at the same moment. His conclusion was arithmetic. If it is true, the only logical move is to hand over your whole life. What took the next two years was discovering that holiness is not a decision you make once; it is an ability you do not yet have. He closes with two questions worth sitting in: what would you do if you knew you could not fail, and what would you still do if you knew you would fail. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music