“Truth is a reflection of objective reality. Some people claim that there is no truth at all. Is that their truth? It can’t be, right? Can a person be an objective pluralist? Not all truths are true even when a pluralist expresses multiple truths. That is the truth. I kid you not.”
— Ray Newkirk
Zest 4 Life: Developing Great Relationships by Mastering the Existential Hunger in You
Systems Management Institute Press · Aug 16, 2020
Welcome to a new adventure. As you begin your journey through this book about finding your Zest 4 Life by building enriching relationships, please understand that it differs from other works about relationships. Naturally I am leaving it to you to live your own life, make your own decisions, and form your own opinions, informed opinions hopefully. For this you need a critical mind, not a mind full of criticism.
This Relationship Book covers many topics from the Levels of Existential Hunger and kinds of Personal Relationships to role of values, Human Activity Systems, organization design, performance, innovation, and professional growth. Hopefully, these discussions will challenge you to raise questions about the problems you sometimes encounter and the results you sometimes experience that produce ill-will in your relationships.
Everything discussed in this book will never directly criticize any person, place, or thing. The book simply examines the situations and events of life in a style that transforms the in-depth understanding you attain here about your relationships into enriching relationships that add Zest 4 Life and improve performance in the many aspects of your life.
I write this book to encourage you to re-frame your discussions about the nature and substance of your relationships as an argument of deeper significance than commonly understood. I simply want you to think deeper, harder, longer, differently, and more clearly about your relationship issues you think you understand while connecting your hearts and minds more humanely during the process. This is the beginning of the process of becoming fully human.
“It takes a lot of brain power to be rational and be objectively correct. It takes a lot of good luck to be subjectively correct and have objectively minded people think you are correct.”
— Ray Newkirk