Dave Evans

I'm being an integrated, coherent, thoughtful, authentic person in the world, which means I'm living purposefully.

Frankly, if the book takes a risk, it's that we don't talk an awful lot about finding purpose and mission and what have you

in part because people are so over-missioned right now that they're stuck in the transactional world.

We're really deferring almost all of that hopefulness to this coherency thing.

If people are aware of their value set, and they're aware of what they're doing in the world, and they're trying to move those things into alignment called coherency, then we're pretty sure they're going to end up doing good things.

So I don't need to preach at you about trying to make the world a better place.

The overwhelming majority of people we work with, they've got great values.

And if their values actually get to be the lead horse on the directing of their lives, we're all going to be in a better place.

So I don't need to tell you what to do.

You've already got what you need.

So the experience of coherency, we call it coherency sightings.

Catch yourself in the act of being an integrated, coherent person.

That's really gratifying.

Oh, I'm sitting here in your studio and we're talking about how people can live more meaningfully.

That is a really coherent thing for me to do.

Am I aware of the fact that, oh, yeah, this is exactly what I want to be doing.

This is really working for me.

Oh, I was just talking to a guy the other day.

So one of the DCI fellows, a very successful Hong Kong financier, calls me and says, my 26-year-old son is about to quit his fabulous job.

Please help me stop him.