The Runner and the Path: An Athlete's Quest for Meaning in Postmodern Corporate America

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Dean Ottati workds for a large corporation, and seeks real meaning in his life, beyond the hardball negotiations that make up his long workday. He feels that capitalism and competition have made us all poorer—slaves of the clock, pursuing the illusory and the empty.

To find the substance of life, he runs. He runs on trails and roads and beaches, every day, alone or with friends, constantly challenging himself physically and intellectually. During these runs he re-evaluates his relationship to work, his use of time, his marriage, his bond with his young son. He peels back layers of hardness from his heart. He finds a new balance in the forces of family, work, love, solitude, money, hapiness, and time.

His conversations with running "mystic sages, and philosophers" each become a chapter. The run along the beach with the friend who counsels him on marriage: "Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" The glorious muddy run in the rain with Marc, who declares, "Each wet sock is a stinking foot soldier in the war against postmodernism!" The run with Big Jack, a senior executive of his company, who teaches him, "Before you speak, examine your intentions. If you can do that you'll come to meet yourself, and it will transform you." And his runs lead him to the philosopher who says that merely by pondering the question of meaning in our lives, we begin to find meaning.

Dean Ottati's quest takes him on a fascinating path toward a common-sense, workable enlightnment. And he teaches us—runners or nonrunners—to find our own path.

This book can change your life.

The Runner and the Path: An Athlete's Quest for Meaning in Postmodern Corporate America