serenitylive 's review for:

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

5.0

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So grateful for this book and glad it exists. Also grateful to my son who read it for a course in undergrad and had a feeling I might like it. You might want to read this book if, like me, you've had a series of lengthy stays in jobs you're not that sure about and you don't quite know where to go next; you're in a career you carefully designed since undergrad but now feel stuck and unhappy; you're just starting on your adult/work journey and want to do it as well as you possibly can. It's not literature, and I won't use all the tools in it precisely as they do. It's a profound approach to work and life, though. Only work, as one reviewer said, but work is so much of our lives that it's basically the same thing to me. I've hated work most of my life because I thought of it only as the thing stealing time from what I really wanted and dreamed. This book helps each reader figure out their own work view and life view to get the two a little more in sync. I loved it.