ISBN: 9780993538759
Editorial: School of Life
Autor: The School of Life
Año de edición: 2018
Edición: 1
N° Páginas: 192
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: A practical guide to finding fulfilling work - by understanding yourself. The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work lives.A Job To Love is designed to help us better understand ourselves in order to find a job that is right for us. It explores the myths, traps and confusions that get in our way, and shows us how to develop new, effective attitudes and habits. With compassion and practicality, this book guides us to discover our true talents and to make sense of our confusion, desires, and aspirations - before it is too late.FIND A CAREER YOU LOVE a guide to finding fulfilling work through self-exploration. PRACTICAL EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES to inspire fresh thinking about our jobs and ourselves. BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED gift format with ribbon marker. Descripción del libro Feature/interview with The School of Life in trade press. Publicise to key list of US media who have previously expressed interest in The School of Life and/or Alain de Botton. Launch on www.theschooloflife.com. Over 30% of the 1.5 million visits to the retail website are from the US and Canada, and 47% of visits to the main homepage. Targeted email to mailing list of 200k subscribers. Contraportada Alongside a satisfying relationship, a career we love is one of the foremost requirements for a fulfilled life. Unfortunately, it is devilishly hard to understand oneself well enough to know quite where one’s energies should be directed. It is to help us out of some of these impasses that we wrote A Job to Love, a guide to how we can better understand ourselves and locate a job that is right for us. With compassion and a deeply practical spirit, the book guides us to discover our true talents and to make sense of our confused desires and aspirations before it is too late. Biografía del autor The School of Life is a global organization helping people lead more fulfilled lives. Through our range of books, gifts and stationery we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find fulfillment. The School of Life is a resource for exploring self-knowledge, relationships, work, socializing, finding calm, and enjoying culture through content, community, and conversation. You can find us online, in stores and in welcoming spaces around the world offering classes, events, and one-to-one therapy sessions.The School of Life is a rapidly growing global brand, with over 6 million YouTube subscribers, 351,000 Facebook followers, 218,000 Instagram followers and 163,000 Twitter followers.The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton. Their books share a coherent, curated message that speaks with one voice: calm, reassuring, and sane. Extracto. © Reimpreso con autorización. Reservados todos los derechos. Introduction i. How we came to desire a job we could love One of the most extraordinary and yet quietly routine features of our age is the assumption that we should be able to find work that we not only tolerate, or endure for the money, but profoundly appreciate, for its high degree of purpose, camaraderie and creativity. We see nothing strange in the remarkable notion that we should try to find a job we love.It is possible to be highly sympathetic to this wish and yet refuse to see it as either normal or easy to fulfil and to insist that, in order to stand any chance of honouring it, we need to lavish concentrated brain power, time and imagination on its underlying complexities. For most of history, the question of whether we might love our work would have seemed laughable or peculiar. We tilled the soil and herded animals, worked
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: The School of Life
- Editorial: School of Life
- N° Paginas: 192
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
