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emp1234's review
2.0
With a title like that, I certainly expected a lot more. Most of this, you probably heard from your HS guidance counselor minus the stories about people who didn't need this book to discover their talents and passions. Would not recommend.
fay_libris's review against another edition
I started this last year when I decided to quit Uni and was trying to find myself.
I knew too little about myself and did too few things in my daily life to get much out of the book and it's exercises. I didn't want to DNF and told myself this book could help but I just couldn't answer many things or do the exercises correctly, so o just slogged through the pages and didn't get far.
I now have a job and my life has changed a lot since starting this book and I would need to start all over again to get anything out of it. Hence DNFing. (For now)
I do think this book can help in finding passions and realizing what you want and don't want to do but for that you have to be already doing something.
If you are stuck in limbo and literally just existing, this book is probably not the right resource at this moment.
I do plan on picking this up again in a few months or so because I do like the idea and think it can help me recognize things about myself.
It was just the wrong time for me to start it.
I knew too little about myself and did too few things in my daily life to get much out of the book and it's exercises. I didn't want to DNF and told myself this book could help but I just couldn't answer many things or do the exercises correctly, so o just slogged through the pages and didn't get far.
I now have a job and my life has changed a lot since starting this book and I would need to start all over again to get anything out of it. Hence DNFing. (For now)
I do think this book can help in finding passions and realizing what you want and don't want to do but for that you have to be already doing something.
If you are stuck in limbo and literally just existing, this book is probably not the right resource at this moment.
I do plan on picking this up again in a few months or so because I do like the idea and think it can help me recognize things about myself.
It was just the wrong time for me to start it.
lizzy_lisko's review against another edition
Author thinks ADHD is caused by diet and bad parenting
nostalginaut's review
4.0
Cool little follow-up to "The Element" and an interesting choice for me to have made soon after reading Dweck's "Mindsets", as it makes a whole lot of references to the same ideas of "fixed mindset" and "growth mindset".
I was also a big fan (once again) of Robinson's discussions about education, and how certain educational settings and situations can be greatly discouraging to a variety of learners who might otherwise find themselves good at something or even excel greatly at it. (I'm a big Hans Zimmer fan, what can I say?) The question, "Are you certain you're bad?" is a pretty great one for students who constantly say "I'm bad at [subject]."
Ultimately, I felt it was a good companion book to "The Element", but that there was very little that made it stand out from Robinson's older book. It really just seemed to repeat the same ideas with a few different examples and encouraging thoughts. Definitely not bad, just nothing new.
I was also a big fan (once again) of Robinson's discussions about education, and how certain educational settings and situations can be greatly discouraging to a variety of learners who might otherwise find themselves good at something or even excel greatly at it. (I'm a big Hans Zimmer fan, what can I say?) The question, "Are you certain you're bad?" is a pretty great one for students who constantly say "I'm bad at [subject]."
Ultimately, I felt it was a good companion book to "The Element", but that there was very little that made it stand out from Robinson's older book. It really just seemed to repeat the same ideas with a few different examples and encouraging thoughts. Definitely not bad, just nothing new.
debesyla's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the first half of the book.
Then it got boring. Really bloody boring.
Eh.
Then it got boring. Really bloody boring.
Eh.
annetteb's review
2.0
It was ok. Kind of a rehashing of material available in other career guidance books
s_books's review
3.0
I haven't read The Element, the predecessor to this book, so that might be why I think a better title for this book would be "Seeking Your Element"; by the end of this book you may have a lot to think about but I'm not sure how many people will have "found" their element. Still not a bad book among the many about figuring out what you want to do with your life.