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Find Your Strongest Life (International Edition): What The Happiest And Most Successful Women Do Differently (2009)

by Marcus Buckingham(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1400280788 (ISBN13: 9781400280780)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Thomas Nelson

review 1: An interesting and challenging read. Buckingham uses research and statistics to show that women in general are less happy than say 40 years ago, and that they get les happy as they get older, in contrast to men. It's not about having too much to do or about stress in general, it seems to be about having too many different things to do, having too many balls that need to stay in the air. The key concept is to look back at moments that truly inspired you, made you feel strong, to find your unique goal and purpose in life and focus on that. I loved the concept and the writing style, even though I would have liked even more practical exercises to get thinking about what my strongest life could look like. An inspirational read for sure that helped me to further define what I wa... morent to do in life.
review 2: I have been on a bit of a podcast binge recently, and I stumbled upon Buckinham's series on Oprah's podcast wherein he talked to a group of woman about how to make their jobs better. Buckingham has this unique philisophy called "strengths" wherein he says that in order to be happy at your job, you have to do things that strengthen you, or give you that natural high. I mean, that is way oversimplified, but overall that is what he is saying. I thought the podcast was great so I bought this book to listen to on my way to work. While I thought a lot of his analysis was really insightful, I felt like it was a longer version of the podcast, and perhaps he just wrote the book to capitalize on his new "female" market after Oprah made him more well known. The book was decent, but that podcast if free, so I would recommend downloading that. less

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