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The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
by Chris Guillebeau
A bit of a strange book that feels like it tries to be too much but I ended up liking it anyway. In The Happiness of Pursuit, Chris Guillebeau tries to create a sort of framework for quests, like his own of visiting all countries of the world, and introduces some criteria, and goes through discovery of a quest, through doing it and finishing it. Guillebeau uses the stories of many others who has been on quests of their own, whether it's cooking dishes from every country or walking across Turkey, they're all those huge undertakings.
As an inspirational book I can't say how well it works for those who aren't looking for a quest. For myself, I've been on my own quests and still have some to go and it was certainly inspiring for me to read about what others have done and the trials and thoughts they had as they went through them. So it's not really a perfect book, and I don't find much value in it as a self-help book or anything. Rather I like it as it perfectly encapsulated my own experiences and reminded me of all those moments I had on my own quest.
As an inspirational book I can't say how well it works for those who aren't looking for a quest. For myself, I've been on my own quests and still have some to go and it was certainly inspiring for me to read about what others have done and the trials and thoughts they had as they went through them. So it's not really a perfect book, and I don't find much value in it as a self-help book or anything. Rather I like it as it perfectly encapsulated my own experiences and reminded me of all those moments I had on my own quest.