"Are you called or are you driven?" asks Bob Buford. What is implied by this question? - correct answer
✔✔1. Some of us are called to a higher purpose
2. Many of us are driven by our own egos
"Bob, what is in the box?" When asked this by a life coach, why did Bob dins this question so
challenging? - correct answer ✔✔1. Bob was raised by his mother to take over the family business and
make it a success, and he grew up with a strong religious orientation.
2. Bob felt he could only have one highest value, either worldly success or success by the standards of his
faith
What does 100X mean to Bob Buford? - correct answer ✔✔Be fruitful 100 times over.
What did Bob Buford mean by "up and to the right"? - correct answer ✔✔He was oriented to making his
net worth grow, as on a chart, upwards and to the right.
Bob Buford describes his own midlife transition in terms of a "sigmoid curve." What does he mean by
this? - correct answer ✔✔1. A sigmoid curve, as Bob would draw it, is a rising S curve that overlaps upon
an earlier rising S curve.
2. The first curve for Bob is success, the second is significance, and the two overlap for a period of years.
In old age, we must achieve "integrity" or we will fall into "despair and disgust." What does this mean? -
correct answer ✔✔1. Seeing your life as having had a purpose and as being a unified whole
2. Seeing your life as having both expressed and formed your true identity or character.
What was Bob referring to when he says "Here's something you can't dream your way out of. Here's
something you can't think your way out of, buy your way out or work your way out of."? - correct answer
✔✔His son's death
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