JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

- STORY BY RICHARD BACH

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• This story is divided into:
 PART 1
 PART 2
 PART 3
PART 1
• Innovative practice
• Lesson: To follow our own
heart and travel the road
less travelled.
Quote- Part 1
• “Instead of our drab slogging
forth and back to the fishing
boats, there's a reason to life!
We can lift ourselves out of
ignorance, we can find
ourselves as creatures of
excellence and intelligence
and skill. We can be free! We
can learn to fly!”
PART 2
• Motivation
• Goal Setting
• Lesson: Unless you
challenge your limitations,
you cannot grow.
 Quote- Part 2
• “Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time.
Heaven is being perfect. You will begin to
touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that
you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying
a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or
flying at the speed of light. Because any
number is a limit, and perfection doesn't
have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being
there.”
- As said to Jonathan by Chiang, The Elder
Gull.
PART 3
• Leadership
• Lesson: We can chose
freedom as easily as we
can chose compliance – the
journey is complete.
• “Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the
hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird
that he is free, and that he can prove it for
himself if he'd just spend a little time
practicing?"
• “You have the freedom to be yourself, your
true self, here and now, and nothing can stand
in your way.”