The Harvard Business School professor and author of "How Will You Measure Your Life?" talks about how he dealt with getting cancer, a heart attack and stroke-all in 3 years, and how religion and science are not incompatible at all.
A Few things of note 1. His willingness to accept truth from any source. 2 To deflect praise for himself, then turning the listener inward to ask themselves the hard questions. 3. Cleary he thinks and tries to understand those with beliefs different from himself . 4. He has Every reason to be arrogant yet he's incredibly humble. I now understand why he wrote a book that was so influential to Steve Jobs. Those of you posting negative comments? Wtf? The pit of hate you've dug, has swallowed you whole.
Late to this party, but I stumbled across this interview and really enjoyed Clayton's candor, thoughtfulness, and courage in sharing his beliefs in such an open-minded way. Thanks for posting way back when!
Christensen is in no way "rambling," much less incoherently. He's thought deeply about his ideas and he presents them quietly but clearly. He explores courage, religion vs. science, and truth in an honest, questioning way. Incidentally, I don't think anyone ANYWHERE would say that Clayton Christensen, an internationally renowned leader whose concept of disruptive innovation revolutionized business, and who teaches the most popular class at HBS, reflects poorly on that institution in any way.
Being objective is what I think Clayton is talking about. Being rational. I buy into that. If more people where rational thinkers, we would have less war and mayhem.
Why is there hype about him? Because of the incredible advances he has made in the world of business. Believer in a higher power or not, core beliefs, values, and ethics are inseparably connected to one's conduct and thinking in the professional or business sphere. Its a wonderful thing when individuals can express, especially as clearly as he, what shapes their view on a given subject matter.
How you will measure your life itself a little of a great mind PERHAPS when tools of energy, vibrations, PATTERN, technology are plenty in extreme perfection loaded with amazingly wonderous artificial intelligence ,yet there exists no measurement of life or cashbook kind of thing. The very title then speaks VOLUMES about this great person so cool so restrained yet amazingly powerful. Has PERHAPS more than gut feeling kind of thing. The word asymptote kind of thing points incompleteness of earlier diode triodes and there characteristic CURVES and energy intensity and patterns. So is there in statistical distributions and significant tests. In nut SHELL till plus and minus INFINITY is not getting defined and nothingness as well nothing is absolute so complete no matter the degrees of perfection may be en mass fantastic. Once again thanks for that video.
Of course atheism is a religion. It has its own creation story. It has its own system of ethics. Its own sacraments and it is held primarily on the basis of faith. It most assuredly is a religion.
He should stick to talking about stuff he knows something about. He seems to think that all ideologies are religions. That is not so. Atheism is not a religion. An ideology might contain atheism, though. But that ideology is not a religion becauuse a religious ideology requires belief in the supernatural. Also, there is a massive conflict between science and religion (facts vs. blind faith).
I don't think you understand faith very well. You've thrown "science" together with "fact", and "religion" in with blind faith" implying that science is concrete while religion is wishy washy voodoo to support the weak kneed. Not so sir. Science is a wonderful thing, and is always changing and re-evaluating itself - conclusions held as gospel one year are disproved the next by a more recent experiment as new evidence arises. In similar fashion, I believe in God based upon the evidence before me. The things I have experienced have led me to firmly believe that He does exist after the manner Mr. Christensen has described, therefore my faith is evidence based and not blind at all. In any case, in order to assertively state that God DOES NOT exist, you would need to be all-knowing. Until you have reached that stage you must realize there is room for reasonable doubt.
business school professor should not pontificate on philosophy in public this way... the incoherent rambling is just embarassing and reflects poorly on HBS.
