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How to Find Fulfilling Work
How to Find Fulfilling Work
How to Find Fulfilling Work
Audiobook3 hours

How to Find Fulfilling Work

Written by Roman Krznaric

Narrated by David Thorpe

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

A practical and inspirational guide to examining your career and deciding whether it truly makes you happy—this book will show you the steps it takes to find a job that truly makes you thrive.

The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great aspirations of our age. This book reveals explores the competing claims we face for money, status, and meaning in our lives. Drawing on wisdom from a variety of disciplines, cultural thinker Roman Krznaric sets out a practical guide to negotiating the labyrinth of choices, overcoming fear of change, and finding a career in which you thrive. Overturning a century of traditional thought about career change, Krznaric reveals just what it takes to find life-enhancing work.

The School of Life is dedicated to exploring life's big questions in highly-portable paperbacks, featuring French flaps and deckle edges, that the New York Times calls "damnably cute." We don't have all the answers, but we will direct you towards a variety of useful ideas that are guaranteed to stimulate, provoke, and console.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 23, 2013
ISBN9781427231901
How to Find Fulfilling Work
Author

Roman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and writer on the art of living and social change. His books, which include The Wonderbox (Profile Books), Empathy (Penguin Random House), and How to Find Fulfilling Work (Macmillan), have been published in over 20 languages. He is founder of the world's first Empathy Museum and of the digital Empathy Library. He advises organisations including Friends of the Earth on using empathy and conversation to create social change, and runs empathy awareness training for Britain's top judges. He is also a founding faculty member of The School of Life and on the faculty of Year Here. Roman has been named by the Observer as one of Britain's leading popular philosophers.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loved the book! found myself nodding in agreement all the time. I felt like it was describing most of the thoughts and emotions I had. I didn't realize how prevalent the search for fulfilling work was for the general population.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a brief but laser-focused manual whose clear intention is to get you out of the rat race. It basically comes to the same conclusion as Daniel Pink's Drive. Both agree that three main motivators keep people satisfied, and maybe even happy, at work: freedom, flow, and meaning. (Pink calls them autonomy, mastery, and purpose.) What about money? status? Both men shoot those down as ultimately unsatisfying. Find work that gives you the magic trifecta, and you'll be happier. The book gives you several fun and practical activities to help you get on the road to finding more fulfilling work -- even if you have to make up your own job title.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I found this philosophical take on finding fulfilling work refreshing. It's not the usual offering for this genre. It recommends only a few soul-searching exercises to begin exploration rather than the usual battery of questions and quizzes and Venn diagrams. Because another library patron had requested the book, I had to return it before trying the exercises, but they were sufficiently intriguing to inspire me to seek this book out again when it's available.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Charming and just intellectual enough.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This self-help book is for people who are having second thoughts about their work, and who have felt unhappy about it for a while, but are feeling unable to do anything about it. It may help you sort out your thoughts and guide you through a few exercises that, in turn, might help you realise what it is that you dislike about your work and what exactly you can attempt to change. I am sure that some people may even realise that it is not their work that they are unhappy about... it is a simple book with a lovely smooth cover - you will want to cradle it in your hands forever. That would probably be a bad idea, though, because what the book urges you to do is - act first, think about it later. I like that approach a lot, I must admit.