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A thoughtful workbook with exercises to help you find a meaningful career.
Following the series of bestselling guided journals – The Couples Workbook and The Calm Workbook – The Career Workbook is here to help you build a personalized and realistic list of your strengths and goals in order to help you find a career that can satisfy both.
The book will help you…
• Establish a firm, clear and realistic sense of your talents, passions, ambitions and weaknesses.
• Understand how your upbringing and past has influenced your career decisions.
• Identify and overcome psychological obstacles standing in the way of your goals.
• Decide exactly how and when to make a career change.
This workbook applies a uniquely philosophical perspective to the world of work. It dares us to ask truly big questions: about why humans need work; the kinds of work that truly motivate us; and how the right job can give our lives purpose and meaning.
"Far more thoughtful and wide-ranging than most straight-up career offerings....This book would be a wonderful tool for anyone who wants to better articulate their dissatisfaction and make changes — or as a gift for a restless friend." - Financial Times
"This book is like a friend that stays with us to face our insecurity, that in reality, is probably not as scary as we thought." - NetGalley Review
Through our range of life-changing books, gifts and stationery, we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find resilience and self-understanding.
The School of Life is a rapidly growing international brand, with over 7 million YouTube subscribers, 354,000 Facebook followers, 309,000 Instagram followers and 172,000 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.
The Pledge
1. Sympathy for Oneself
2. Taking the Sunday Blues Seriously
3. The Clues of Childhood
4. The Twelve Pleasure Points of Work
5. Jobs That Leave Me Cold
6. Lives That Make Me Envious
7. Clarification Exercise
8. Visualisation Exercise
9. An Advertisement for Myself
10. Family Scripts
11. Supportive and Unsupportive People
12. Self-sabotage
13. Fixation and Unfixation
14. Evolution Not Revolution
15. We Are (Sort of) Free
16. The Terror of a ‘No’
17. Impostor Syndrome
18. Why Now?
19. Urgency
20. The Agony of Choice
21. A Future Self
22. Success
23. After the Lottery
24. The Duty Trap
25. The Good Child
26. Permission
27. Self-affirmation
28. The Status Quo
29. The Art of Confidence
30. Befriending the Inner Idiot
31. Criticism
32. How Long Is There Left?
33. Readiness for Difficulty
34. Processing the Past
35. Confidence in Confidence
36. We Could Survive
37. I’ve Screwed Up
38. Laying Down Boundaries
39. Do It Now!
40. Beyond Gossip
41. Think Strategically
42. Learn to Be ‘Lazy’
43. You Could Leave School
44. Entrepreneurship
45. Changing the World: Be Utopian!
Conclusion