![]() ![]() Springsteen entered a world of chaos and turned to guitars and amplifiers and lyrics to create order. People who choose rock and roll as their vocation are usually trying to break free from constraints, to smash things, to stir up a little turmoil in their souls. Three types of people, Fosdick observed, emerge from the struggle: those whose lives remain scattered and ineffectual those who focus on a low purpose, like money or status and those who, finding a vocation guided by a high purpose, corral their conflicting selves “sufficiently to make a concentrated impression on the world.”īruce Springsteen’s frank and gripping memoir, Born to Run, is an intimate portrait of one man’s lifelong attempt to follow that primary command. ![]() Over the years, our job is to integrate our many parts, which entails choosing the goals and tasks we consider most important. He argued that “the primary command of our being is, Get yourself together, and the fundamental sin is to be chaotic and unfocused.” We are all born, he wrote, with different selves, tastes, talents, fears, competing desires, and possibilities. In 1943, Harry Emerson Fosdick, then the pastor of New York City’s Riverside Church, published a book called On Being a Real Person. ![]()
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