If you don't know who you are, who is speaking when you speak?
WHERE IS YOUR VOICE? continues the journey begun in WHO ARE YOU?, moving from the discovery of SELF into a deeper examination of identity, education, independent thought, and personal evolution.
We are surrounded by voices-family, culture, institutions, circumstances, teachers, media, people we admire, and people who believe they know what is best for us. Influence is inevitable. The question is whether you have examined what influenced you before calling it YOU-R-VOICE.
Built around three principles-FIND YOU-R-SELF / FIND YOU-R-VOICE, EDUCATE YOU-R-SELF, and KEEP LEARNING / STAY IN THE MIDDLE / EVOLVE-this book challenges readers to question what they believe, investigate what they have been taught, and remain willing to evolve when greater knowledge demands a different conclusion.
Don't drink the Kool-Aid just because you're thirsty.
Education is more than academic achievement. Knowledge gives you the ability to recognize, question, discern, and make informed choices for YOU-R-SELF. A voice without examination can become an echo, and conviction without continued learning can become a cage.
Through key terms, reflective questions, principles, and exercises, WHERE IS YOUR VOICE? asks:
Who educates you? What information forms you? Whose language have you inherited? What have you repeated without examining? Can you hear yourself underneath the people you admire? And when new evidence challenges an old belief, are you willing to evolve?
The goal is not to tell you what to think.
The goal is to challenge you to understand who is doing the thinking.
IDENTITY. KNOWLEDGE. WISDOM.
Find YOU-R-SELF.
Educate YOU-R-SELF.
Express YOU-R-SELF.
Evolve YOU-R-SELF.
WHERE IS YOUR VOICE?