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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST AVAILABLE BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT
Review: I have read dozens upon dozens of vocational guidance books over the last ten years (the latter ones out of curiosity, after having surveyed so much!) By this, I can say that "How to Find the Work You Love" is one of THE best vocational guidance books on the market today. You will not find one great magical answer with this book. However, such an ultimate Eureka experience is not the result of reading ANY career guide. But let's face it: there is a lot of nonsense out there. "How to Find the Work You Love" is a breath of grounded fresh air amidst the hocus-pocus career fantasias hitting the shelves over the last ten years. This book is inspirational to me; and also practical, well-organized and developed, and even somewhat CONCISE on top of it! IMHO, the best summary of sound exercises, commentaries, questions and advice are in this little book. One of the VERY few career guides I seriously recommend.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST AVAILABLE BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT
Review: I have read dozens upon dozens of vocational guidance books over the last ten years (the latter ones out of curiosity, after having surveyed so much!) By this, I can say that "How to Find the Work You Love" is one of THE best vocational guidance books on the market today. You will not find one great magical answer with this book. However, such an ultimate Eureka experience is not the result of reading ANY career guide. But let's face it: there is a lot of nonsense out there. "How to Find the Work You Love" is a breath of grounded fresh air amidst the hocus-pocus career fantasias hitting the shelves over the last ten years. This book is inspirational to me; and also practical, well-organized and developed, and even somewhat CONCISE on top of it! IMHO, the best summary of sound exercises, commentaries, questions and advice are in this little book. One of the VERY few career guides I seriously recommend.
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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: I love How to Find the Work You Love! This book contains within it everything you need to know about creating meaningful work. I have given it to so many people as gifts, I stopped counting! Everyone I have given it to enjoys it as much as I do, and has benefited by its wisdom and human-hearted approach to creating the work you love. Even if you are not looking at a career change read this book. It is life changing!
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Summary: not worth most people's time...
Review: I picked up "How to Find the Work You Love" from the local public library, hoping for a quick, moderately inspirational read. What I got was anything but.Reading it, although it was brief, took longer than I had expected. As other reviewers have noted, Boldt uses quotations with a frequency that borders on ridiculous. Most pages contained at least one; some pages had as many as three (and these are not long pages!). I found that this detracted from the impact some of them might have had were they not tossed about so liberally. For the most part, Boldt has nothing insightful or useful to offer the reader. His writing style is uneven and is made worse by the insertion of those inescapable quotations. I almost decided to cut my losses and not finish the book (multiple times), rather than trudge through the whole thing. Boldt's idea that everyone can do "the work they love" if they have enough patience, fortitude, and creativity to seek it out is unrealistic. I doubt that many people love working as autoworkers, mail carriers, accountants, gas station attendants, etc., but these are services made necessary by the way most of us live today--and as the old saying goes, "it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it." It would have been nice if Boldt had acknowledged this. Unless you're really struggling with discerning your path/purpose in life, I would pass on this book. Recommended for those who think management books are valuable and inspiring.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I want to know if the people who wrote poor reviews are doing work that they really love. This book is good to gain a clear and positive perspective on work and what it really means, but in order to truly benefit from it, you have to read it with *cliche* an open mind.
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Summary: This book could change your life!
Review: Outstanding! This excellent book helps you clear away all the self-limiting thinking that's keeping you from finding your life's purpose. It will also help you discover your right livelihood through a series of insightful, though-provoking questions. You will love this book; it's fun to read, and VERY inspiring. It's far different from most any other self help book you have probably read before. Also, BE SURE you get the cassette version, too...listen to it in the car, while exercising, or anytime you need a great pep talk. This book gives you more than hope...it gives you a path and vision to achieve your purpose in life. Get it!!
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Summary: ¿How to Find the Work You Love¿ Zero Help
Review: People who may be unhappy at their jobs and thinking a change may be in order will find no help here whatsoever. I thought about writng a complete review, but instantly realized I'd wasted enough time, not to mention money, on this book. Suffice it to say that half of the content is recycled quotes from notable personalities from the Roman statesman Cicero to 'Megatrends' author John Naisbitt, woven together with the author's own remarks, something between half-baked mysticism and the "I'm OK, You're OK" school of political correctness. There is little to no practical assistance formulating guidance about rethinking what you may want to do. The premises are oversimplified and contradictory, and there's no context regarding the current workscape. I was under the impression this book aimed to help people discover how to go about finding their own path to more fulfilling careers. By the time I finished this under-sized, cheap-papered trade paperback two-and-a-half hours later, I felt nothing more than cheated, both by the cover price and time spent that I can never recapture. Laurence G. Boldt, billed on the cover as a career consultant, should be ashamed if he accepted any compensation for this work, and the publishers, Arkana of the Penguin Group, should be even more ashamed they published it and are charging for it. To my own credit, I opted for this 150-page volume to preview Boldt before forking over $ for Boldt's career opus "Zen and the Art of Making a Living," and I'm glad I did: As folk wisdom has it: "Fool me once ...."
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Summary: Positives and Negatives
Review: Positives:
1. Easy to read and offers trivial but entertaining quotes from famous people.
2. A feel good book, inspires you to be more giving to the outside world (i.e. choose a career that fulfills by doing something meaningful to you and valuable to others in a self enriching way).
3. Gives you something to think about as far as your choices in life (i.e. touching upon reasons you chose your career and how your career may be affecting your health/self-esteem/stress/anger).
Negatives:
1. Depending on your personal outlook you may find this book useful if you have been looking for additional support in your dream to become a teacher and quit your job as a corporate lawyer. On the other hand you may think the brainwashing is totally unrealistic (you need to pay your bills) and the book a waste of time. It really depends on you.
2. The exercises in the book are minimally useful.
3. If you are doing some soul searching maybe it would be more useful to look at your other specific problems (if you have any) like anger, stress, health and choose a more appropriate self-help book. For example, Harriet Lerner has a great book on anger.
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Summary: A bit "fluffy" but I liked it.
Review: So I'm getting through this nice little book. I'm thinking good thoughts about where I can take the feelings it left me with when I turn to the last page and see an 800 # to call for info about seminars on HOW TO FIND THE WORK YOU LOVE. Wow! This is perfect! I've wanted that information for a long time. Alas, no, it isn't. "This number is no longer in service ..." It's such a shame, I was really primed!
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Summary: Transforming...powerful, yet simple truth
Review: This book has the potential to change one's view of the universe, and more practically, the way one looks at the life of work. The author points out many of the reasons why work is so meaningless for so many people, and gives authentic, or mindful solutions for figuring out one's true purpose based only on qualities such as compassion, peace, and love. I found it very influential in helping me find my purpose.
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