WHITTAKER, Charles
ISBN 978-1-922890-63-4
PAPERBACK
Edifying Success
A self-help book inviting young fathers to redefine success and how to track their progress
It’s about filtering what we want, to optimise what we can become.
Edifying Success is the first book in a series of experiences of Profit & Learning that are intended for future release. This specific experience aims to invoke insightful reflection on the various hungers we face in life so as to better determine the helpfulness of our most common responses to those cravings.
It argues that we can all unintentionally pursue our own demise to the extent we remain blind to the desensitising effects of feeding ‘instant gratification’ and that we also possess a surprisingly large capacity for personal change and improvement that becomes unlocked as we learn how to edify each of our hungers instead of gratify them.
Once edification is understood, we come to see why it’s important to deprioritise things we ‘want to have’ for things we ‘want to do’ and why both should be trumped by the things we ‘want to be’. When ‘what we’re becoming’ is clearly seen as our top priority we’re suddenly far more impervious to distraction by less helpful metrics of progress, like ‘quantity of possessions’ or ‘how we compare to others’. We learn what actions and measures edify us ‘in the now’.
About the Author
Charles lives in Brisbane Australia and felt the desperate need to write Edifying Success after spending more than 15 years in the Financial Planning industry where it became painfully evident how many people are trying to solve life problems with money solutions.
The comatose living brought on by not edifying his own hunger for success eventually grew too painful to bear so he resigned in 2019 to finish the book he started five years earlier in an effort to help others escape from comatose living themselves.
He loves philosophy and theology but perhaps neither as much as a good bakery.
