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118 reviews for:
The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Chris Guillebeau
3.54 AVERAGE
118 reviews for:
The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Chris Guillebeau
3.54 AVERAGE
This book is definitely inspiring. I enjoyed reading about people's quests and thought about a few of my own - walking to work for a week, for instance (I live pretty far away) or building my own upright bass. However, the more I thought about it, I wasn't sure that these would improve my life in any meaningful way, and the book never really gave me a compelling reason for who something so self-serving would improve my life more than more modest goals like exercising regularly or eating fish twice a week. I did appreciate that Guillebeau never used the typical self-help book strategy of turning everything into a catch phrase.
I'm glad I listened to this as an audiobook rather than reading it, because it's a series of narratives about people who have pursued "quests" and their stories. Basically Guillebeau emphases people find their purpose in the pursuit of great, meaningful things to them instead of trying to find this vague idea of happiness. He inspires readers to find their own quest and grow while enjoying the journey.
Nice easy read with a lot of cool ideas on how to go on some sort of quest without just being about travel.
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
As I am closing in on one goal, I thought I would see if this book offered me any concise replies for why I decided to do complete marathons in the 50 states. The author did not reall give an answer to that one, but he did validate the accompanying feeling that I'm having of finding a new quest. I enjoyed his writing style and his anecdotes and the stories of others. Great read!
It was good, I liked all the sub stories but I wouldn’t be rushing to tell everyone they have to read it though.
inspired my own pursuit. I never felt things needed to be grand, just personal.
I didn't get a lot of motivation from this book. Like many of the stories in this book, I just was pushing my way through this book, one sentence at a time and wondering how do I feel about a guy whose calling was visiting every country in the world? Should I listen to him?
In one of the chapters, the author told a story about when he told someone about his calling of visiting every country,he got a reply, "That's easy. You just need enough time and money." Yeah, that's right!
Well, upon further reflection, enough money + time = a lot of goals in life. That's what goals are.... investing time and other things to accomplish something. So, at first I may sneer at Chris' ambition at visiting every country, I can also applaud him for setting an ambitious goal and accomplishing it. Well done, Chris!
The book was better after reaching this conclusion.
My favorite chapter was the last one ... when the goal is accomplished, then what. So many books/movies/stories end up the high note. But what happens when the last note of the song is played? Then what? What happens after you visit the last country, get the boy/girl, or slay the evil monster?
The book was overall OK. It got me out of a two long rut and I can feel things starting to align again.