{"id":23894,"date":"2016-10-21T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T21:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=23894"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:08:29","slug":"40-40-david-h-kim-connects-deeper-sense-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/40-40-david-h-kim-connects-deeper-sense-humanity","title":{"rendered":"40 over 40: David H. Kim connects to a &#8216;deeper sense of humanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David H. Kim remembers wrestling with whether he was cut out to be a minister. He had just taken a salary cut in order to lead a Christian fellowship at Princeton University. \u201cI tried to counsel a student and realized I wasn\u2019t helping, but making things worse,\u201d says the 43-year-old entrepreneur. \u201cIt was this existential crisis of, \u2018Why did I let go of a great job?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/David-H-Kim-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"David H. Kim\" class=\"wp-image-23896\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>How do you deal with failure? Do you cover it over and try to hide in that, or embrace it, learn from it, and grow?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim realized pretty quickly that he wasn\u2019t in the wrong profession. \u201cBeing in this profession helped me understand the power of my humanness and limitation and learn how it shapes me to be authentic to who I am,\u201d he explains. In 2007, the author of books like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/20-Something-Paperback-Frames-Figure\/dp\/0310433479\">20 and Something<\/a><\/em> and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/NIV-Faith-Work-Bible-Hardcover\/dp\/0310433649\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475183840&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=faith+and+work+bible\">Faith and Work Bible<\/a><\/em> founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandwork.com\/programs\/1-gotham-fellowship\">Gotham Fellowship<\/a>, a New York City-based Christian leadership training program sponsored the <a href=\"http:\/\/faithandwork.com\/\">Center for Faith &amp; Work<\/a>. The program, which teaches the next generation of leaders, is growing globally, popping up in places like Johannesburg, Hong Kong, and Sydney. \u201cSome settle for it being a paycheck or a stepping stone, without realizing the real opportunity to think about work in ways to connect to a deeper sense of humanity,\u201d says Kim, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/locations\/new-york-city\/bryant-park\">WeWork Bryant Park<\/a> member. \u201cWork is the expression of our identity, not the source of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David H. Kim remembers wrestling with whether he was cut out to be a minister. He had just taken a salary cut in order to lead a Christian fellowship at Princeton University. \u201cI tried to counsel a student and realized I wasn\u2019t helping, but making things worse,\u201d says the 43-year-old entrepreneur. \u201cIt was this existential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":23895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43903,43911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-stories","category-member-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>40 over 40: David H. 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