WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU?

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. - Micah 6:8 NIV
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Hello! My name is Dustin Barrington. My family and I are full-time volunteers with Youth With A Mission, a Christian non-profit organization operating in over 1,200 locations in 170 countries.

We are affiliated with the Student Mobilization Centre. We inspire, inform, equip and encourage individuals and their communities to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. We do this through teaching, writing, consulting, mentoring young leaders and one-on-one coaching.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

FREAKONOMICS

Have you read this book? If not, you should.

The nutshell takeaway is that if one applies the logic and processes of economics in other fields of sociological study one finds that the way things actually "are" is not what conventional wisdom would lead us to assume.

My primary insight from Freakonomics is that most human decisions can be linked to incentives. If one understands how incentives are influencing decisions one can predict what decisions will be made in a given context. Even though our hyper-individualized Western culture would entice us to believe that we are autonomous, free thinking individuals, analysis of sociological information shows that we are about as predictable as lemmings.

How can we shift current incentives so that people naturally create solutions rather than problems?
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