lacurieuse 's review for:

The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life by Chris Guillebeau

2.0

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I think maybe I would have felt inspired by this book in high school, when the only person I had to think about was myself. No job, no responsibilities. But now? Nope. The woman who abandoned her four kids to fulfil her “quest” to see as many bird species as she could? I just kept thinking that there were better ways to “find your life purpose” than the ways suggested in this book. (Like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, for starters! I did just read The Happiness Trap.) I suppose it didn’t help that I also just finished reading a book about how small steps are the best way to bring about lasting change in your life... and that speaks to me much more than giving everything up for some chosen “life quest” like traveling to every single country in the world just to check them off your list. Again, maybe the timing just wasn’t right for me, but I didn’t find this book inspirational at all.