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I'm working through this book with a small group of people -- an accountability group. We've all developed fun odyssey plans!
So grateful for this book and glad it exists. Also grateful to my son who read it for a course in undergrad and had a feeling I might like it. You might want to read this book if, like me, you've had a series of lengthy stays in jobs you're not that sure about and you don't quite know where to go next; you're in a career you carefully designed since undergrad but now feel stuck and unhappy; you're just starting on your adult/work journey and want to do it as well as you possibly can. It's not literature, and I won't use all the tools in it precisely as they do. It's a profound approach to work and life, though. Only work, as one reviewer said, but work is so much of our lives that it's basically the same thing to me. I've hated work most of my life because I thought of it only as the thing stealing time from what I really wanted and dreamed. This book helps each reader figure out their own work view and life view to get the two a little more in sync. I loved it.
This book was easy to read and provided some good journaling exercises. You will gain very little from this book if you do not do the recommended exercises. Don't expect reading this book to change your life overnight. Change requires work and this book is one perspective on what kind of work you can do to make the changes you want to see. Some have called out the authors as having a priveleged perspective, and while I agree and am not completely free of that bias myself, I still believe many of the principles can be used by anyone to begin defining and working towards the life they want to create.
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This book came out as I was beginning to think about how I wanted my life to look as I transitioned to retirement, and I found its ideas on imagining very helpful. A number of scenarios I envisioned then have fallen by the wayside as things I really didn't want to do and life itself offered new opportunities. I am pretty happy with the way things are. (This review is being written in 2020 as the authors' new book "Designing Your Work Life" has just come out and I discovered I hadn't written anything about the first book . . . )
While I can’t say this book is enjoyable to read per se, I can say I’ve taken some really valuable techniques and mindsets away from it, and I’m looking forward to seeing what my students think of it this fall