{"id":11126,"date":"2026-10-31T11:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:59:26","slug":"a-craving-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=11126","title":{"rendered":"A Craving for Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m about a quarter through reading <strong><em>Return to Real<\/em><\/strong> by Ryan Levesque and I&#8217;m already appreciating it enough to recommend it to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levesque&#8217;s starting point is his belief that &#8220;What the world is craving isn&#8217;t <em>more<\/em>. What the world is craving is what&#8217;s <em>real<\/em>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Return-to-Real.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Return-to-Real.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Return-to-Real-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI is about to bring an enormous shift to our daily lives &#8211; for better or worse. Levesque&#8217;s book suggests how individuals can ride the coming wave on both the personal and the professional fronts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as business goes, as it slowly dawns on people that &#8220;Artificial&#8221; is a synonym for &#8220;Fake&#8221;, Levesque sees business opportunities for those dedicated to creating something Real. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my personal interest is on the spiritual front, which Levesque does not specifically address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the upheaval(s) coming with AI present an opportunity for the Church as well as business. People are craving Real spirituality, Real connection, and Real purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church needs to BE that place of the Real, first. And then the Church needs to get the word out to people who are craving the Real. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be curious to see how much of Levesque&#8217;s business advice might be transferable to the interests of the Church. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about a quarter through reading Return to Real by Ryan Levesque and I&#8217;m already appreciating it enough to recommend it to others. Levesque&#8217;s starting point is his belief that &#8220;What the world is craving isn&#8217;t more. What the world is craving is what&#8217;s real.&#8221; I would agree. AI is about to bring an enormous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}