Crossing the Unknown Sea
David Whyte
About this book
Through poetry and personal essay, David Whyte explores what it means to take one's soul seriously in the workplace — tracing how the call of the unknown is not an obstacle but the very path of creative professional life.
Key themes
- Vocation as a calling from the unknown, not a career plan
- The courageous identity: who we become when we risk the unknown
- David Whyte's own experience leaving marine biology for poetry
- Organizational life as a spiritual frontier, not just a transactional space
- The relationship between rest, creativity, and self-renewal
About the author
David Whyte is a poet, author, and corporate consultant who uses poetry to illuminate the intersection of personal integrity and organizational life. He is an associate fellow at Oxford's Saïd Business School and has lectured widely at NASA, AT&T, and other organizations.
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