This Is The Good Thing: Choosing A Life Of Service Over Self

Three years ago, Stuart Albright decided to quit his job as a public high school teacher. Despite numerous awards and accolades over a 17-year career, he felt empty and burned out. So Albright started to ask hard questions about what it means to serve others and what it means to be unselfish. His newest book, This is the Good Thing, is the result of that struggle - a struggle that ultimately led him to remain in his job and approach his work with a renewed sense of purpose. In the book, Albright concludes that most of us want to be good, but we live in a culture that rewards selfishness. So we reach for fame and fortune and all the trappings of success - all the stuff that is supposed to make us happy but leaves us feeling empty instead. For the past 17 years, Stuart Albright has struggled with this dilemma. Teaching in the same public high school for his entire career, Albright has experienced tremendous success and tremendous failures. These moments have led him to one hard-earned lesson: in order to be fulfilled, we have to put other people first. In This is the Good Thing, Albright argues that if we focus on ourselves, we will miss out on the many things that make life worth living. Albright makes a convincing case for Service over Self by pulling from research in psychology and sociology, as well as from his own experiences in a diverse public school. Albright challenges us to lift up the people who matter most in our lives - our co-workers, our neighbors, and our family - by placing them in the spotlight while we stand back in the shadows. This is the Good Thing is a powerful call to service.

Author: Stuart Albright

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019

Number of Pages: 225 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1098985435

ISBN-13: 9781098985431