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Three Marriages, The: Reimagining Work, Self And Relationship (2009)

by David Whyte(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1423376528 (ISBN13: 9781423376521)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: I very much enjoyed this book and it introduced at least one key concept: that work, your partnership, and your personal life are not best thought of as a balance, where adding to one takes away from the other, but as a union between the things you love and putting work into finding synergies between these things will make them all better.It's a lot longer than it needs to be due to the (beautiful) flowery prose, but that's what I'd expect from a poet. =)
review 2: A friend introduced me to David Whyte’s poetry last year. Since then I have come across some of his work that rung true for me, in particular some inferences to how we have accomplished a lot more in our heads, in imagined conversations that we have with ourselves, than we have actually accomplish... moreed in the real word. I don’t believe myself to be arrogant, but my imagined accomplishments far exceed my actual achievements.Three years ago I went through a divorce and this year I was laid off. So when I saw David Whyte’s book with the subtitle “Reimaging Work, Self, and Relationship” I assumed it may contain some nuggets of advice I would find helpful. As with most books I read, I had to get about halfway through the book before I felt an attachment. Although I did not find his advice to be life-changing and inspirational, I did find some usefulness in his advice, some connections to his stories and I was entertained by some of his examples.In particular, I enjoyed learning more about how writers like Robert Lewis Stephenson and Jane Austen were challenged and how they faced those challenges. My knowledge of some great authors has been greatly enhanced through this book. ( I would have never read the book just for this purpose, but it was a very pleasant learning experience and I found myself desiring to learn more about them ). If I can accurately summarize the basic analogy of the book, David Whyte challenges the concept of work-life balance often referenced by employers in the corporate world. Instead, he compares our relationships to marriages, and those relationships include how we approach our vocation and how we respect ourselves, as well as the obvious marriage we have to those we love. Rather than balancing the three, where we need to decide on trade-offs, there is also a marriage between the three marriages, and we need to find ways for them all to be in harmony together rather than chose which one takes priority.I did not come away from “Three Marriages” enlightened with a wonderful new perspective that will change my life. However I did uncover some nuggets of worthy advice. The “Three Marriages” is probably one of those books that I should keep around on a bookshelf, and pull it back out to re-read a chapter or two on occasion to help some of the lessons David shares truly sink in and take hold. less

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