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The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
by Chris Guillebeau
I liked the general premise. Finding quests in your life is a great idea, having them be measurable is good, having "big" things to attempt to attain is great. However, the book itself was very repetitive.
First, I think the great majority of the book could have been one long blog post. He didn't cover a long wide range of techniques and tricks to find/do quests, it was primarily a rambling way to convince you that you should have one, they're good for you, should be measured, etc.
The actual number of quests he described through the book was somewhat short. He repeated his own story (in various ways) over and over again. He gave a list of various people's quests as well, but fewer than I would have expected, and kept going back to the same people/quests as examples through the book. And plenty of those stories were somewhat contrived, feeling either not like a great "quest", or perhaps just a little bit crazy. Cool to be crazy, but when you don't have a massive list of quests, it becomes odd.
Anyway, I liked the concept. As a blog post, I would have given a big high five & recommended it to people. As a full length book, I just felt the content was thin in comparison to the book length.
First, I think the great majority of the book could have been one long blog post. He didn't cover a long wide range of techniques and tricks to find/do quests, it was primarily a rambling way to convince you that you should have one, they're good for you, should be measured, etc.
The actual number of quests he described through the book was somewhat short. He repeated his own story (in various ways) over and over again. He gave a list of various people's quests as well, but fewer than I would have expected, and kept going back to the same people/quests as examples through the book. And plenty of those stories were somewhat contrived, feeling either not like a great "quest", or perhaps just a little bit crazy. Cool to be crazy, but when you don't have a massive list of quests, it becomes odd.
Anyway, I liked the concept. As a blog post, I would have given a big high five & recommended it to people. As a full length book, I just felt the content was thin in comparison to the book length.