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...back on the marketplace. But with nearly 240 protests a day erupting nationwide in 2005-over everything from seizures of farmland and rising health care costs to environmental degradation and unaffordable education-the country's leaders are trying to replace a no-holds-barred form of capitalism with a kinder, gentler version that takes better care of the country's have-nots...
...gave Nazrudin its name and mission, and who remains life planning's guru-in-chief, is George Kinder (rhymes with "tinder"). Now in his late 50s, Kinder grew up in a small town in the Midwest. He went off to Harvard, where he majored in economics, but found greater meaning in classic literature and philosophy. Eventually he chucked academia, moving to a Massachusetts farmhouse "to live a life of spiritual practice and writing." This life plan struck his parents as an enlightened pathway to material nowhere. His mother suggested that he try accounting. For the next 13 years, Kinder worked...
...Kinder still maintains a planning practice near Harvard Square. He also spends time on [the Hawaiian island of] Maui. But mostly he's intent on turning old-style financial planning inside out. For Kinder, life planning isn't a flaky version of financial planning--it's where the profession needs to go, "financial planning done right," he flatly states. A few years ago, he established the Kinder Institute to train traditional planners to be more empathetic, to ask the right questions, to remake themselves into "torchbearers" who can help light the way for clients who need to figure out what...
Last fall I attended one of Kinder's three-day workshops, a memorable stop on the angel-of-doomsday tour. There, in a room filled with 90 straight-laced financial advisers, Kinder staged his signature training exercise: the Three Big Questions. Kinder claims that he asks himself these questions several times a year as a way of staying focused on his personal priorities...
...Kinder instructed the planners to write their answers down, not just think about them. He introduced question No. 1: "It's a fun question," he said calmly, a gentle smile on his face. "Assume that you've got all the money you need. Maybe you're not Warren Buffett, but you'll never have to worry about money again. The question is, What would you do with it? How would you live? Think for a moment, then write the answer down." Instantly the room filled with the sound of scribbling...