The Tao te Ching Passage That Shapes My Career Path

It’s about letting the mud clear.

David Gerken
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
6 min readJan 7, 2022

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The Tao te Ching is my favorite book of wisdom. Written 2,500 years ago by Lao Tzu, the Tao is, quite literally, a handbook for how to live. The reason is it considered one of the wisest books ever written is that Lao Tzu’s words resonate as much today as they did millennia ago.

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David Gerken
Change Your Mind Change Your Life

Meditation and Mindfulness teacher. Dad of three precious kids. Former writer for THE WEST WING. Follow me at davidgerken.net.