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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Pretty quick read. Not Earth-shattering but already recommending it to people.
I really enjoyed the story telling in this book, and found lots of little "take home" bits of wisdom. All of the stories were about people who have been successful (based on the standard definition) in their careers, so it would have been nice to have more diverse stories. Otherwise, this was a great well-rounded read. I would reccomend this for anyone in the process of reevaluating their own relationship with work (and life).
“If you could go, but you couldn’t tell anyone that you went, would you still do it?”
“In the words of author James Clear “it’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.” As long as I believed that my self-worth was contingent on my ability to produce, the drive to produce more would always trump my intention to work less”
The last two chapters of this book were phenomenal. I LOVE that the ending chapter did NOT have advice that you could take to have better work life balance. This wasn’t self help and it wasn’t boring non fiction, either. It was relatively short at ~200 pages and helped me reflect on my personal fulfillment at my own job and company.
I have to say, though, while reading the book I could tell that a) a man wrote it and b) probably didn’t have children. There are definite biases in the book but that being said it delivered a fantastic message about work culture and how it’s evolved to force you to be passionate about what you do and measure success by cultural standards.
“In the words of author James Clear “it’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.” As long as I believed that my self-worth was contingent on my ability to produce, the drive to produce more would always trump my intention to work less”
The last two chapters of this book were phenomenal. I LOVE that the ending chapter did NOT have advice that you could take to have better work life balance. This wasn’t self help and it wasn’t boring non fiction, either. It was relatively short at ~200 pages and helped me reflect on my personal fulfillment at my own job and company.
I have to say, though, while reading the book I could tell that a) a man wrote it and b) probably didn’t have children. There are definite biases in the book but that being said it delivered a fantastic message about work culture and how it’s evolved to force you to be passionate about what you do and measure success by cultural standards.
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
As others have noted, it feels a bit contradictory that the author spends so much time focusing on taking sabbaticals (I get the white collar focus, but I also know from being in a white collar field that those of us who cannot just take a sabbatical are way more numerous than those who can) but I did appreciate the thinking around de-centering work when considering your life goals and changes thereof. Solid read, a bit head in the clouds and could have used some grounding.
I very rarely read nonfiction but this is a good one if you, like me , are trying to separate yourself from the value you have in corporate america
informative
inspiring
I’ve read a lot of books around this topic, and the way in which this was written created a great framework to contemplate my own relationship to work. I loved the stories of individuals built around each theme - each one forced me to apply it to my thinking. I can’t say this about every book I’ve read around this, but this is one I will go back to again and again as a thought exercise and check in.
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
good read after being laid off and struggling to find a job. reframing a lot of beliefs about work is helping, especially when being in the thick of it it’s hard to get out. the beginning bit about “what do you do?” being the first question people ask was illuminating and depressing.