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A review by foggettparker
The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters by Peter Block
4.0
I discovered Peter Block's writing quite by accident. When I realized that he has written several books on community, stewardship, and work, I immediately checked all of his books out of the library.
This is the first book by Block that I have read and I'm going to keep reading his books.
He offers a new way of thinking about our actions that help free us from being controlled by the bombardment of messages about how we should live and act.
There are so many takeaways from this book. Taking them away and acting on them will be a challenge that should take a lifetime. This isn't a book about tips and techniques for asking better questions. It's not a book about how to hack a better work environment. This is a book about reframing yourself and your life and your thinking to choose accountability, passion and purpose from your life's work.
There are many questions in Block's book, but I felt the ones that will take me my lifetime to struggle through were "What do we want to create together? and "what is the question that, if you had the answer, would set you free?". My short term take aways from these questions are that going forward, I'm going to ask colleagues, friends, community: "what do we want to create together?", rather than "how do we do XYZ"?
This is the first book by Block that I have read and I'm going to keep reading his books.
He offers a new way of thinking about our actions that help free us from being controlled by the bombardment of messages about how we should live and act.
There are so many takeaways from this book. Taking them away and acting on them will be a challenge that should take a lifetime. This isn't a book about tips and techniques for asking better questions. It's not a book about how to hack a better work environment. This is a book about reframing yourself and your life and your thinking to choose accountability, passion and purpose from your life's work.
There are many questions in Block's book, but I felt the ones that will take me my lifetime to struggle through were "What do we want to create together? and "what is the question that, if you had the answer, would set you free?". My short term take aways from these questions are that going forward, I'm going to ask colleagues, friends, community: "what do we want to create together?", rather than "how do we do XYZ"?