世界一やさしい「やりたいこと」の見つけ方 人生のモヤモヤから解放される自己理解メソッド

Easy to read and digest

Language learning: I agree with Brieftaube's review on how easy to read this book was and wanted to expand on that a little bit.

This book features several diagrams that provide a nice visual break from text density. More importantly, it has one or two sentence POINTs in bold and/or blue text at the end of every section that summarize/reiterate the most important concept that was just covered.

So whenever I started getting lost in the text I could skip ahead to the point, take the time to fully understand that one sentence, then try again with the text. This really helped keep my brain on track.

Content: Since I already enjoy reading self-help types of books in English annnnd I spent nearly half my life in a highly specialized field I had zero interest in, I think I'm exactly the type of person who would enjoy and benefit from a book that tells you to take the time to figure yourself out and do what you want to do--not what you think (or other people say) you should do. This book may also be useful for anyone still in school or considering a career change.

I haven't taken the time through the book's proposed process myself, yet, but I think I will in the near future.

A couple of downsides: Because the proposed system of understanding yourself is pretty straightforward, and key points are reiterated throughout, I can definitely imagine this book would be boring for some readers.

For the ebook version only: There are lists of extra guiding questions and such in the back of the book, but those are included as series of images rather than normal inline text. As someone who usually reads with zoom cranked up in ttsu, reading these lists as blurry, artifact-messy jpg text was pretty unpleasant.

Decent advice

I listened to this but would recommend reading it instead if you actually reading this for the topic and not just for practice.

The advice is decent and presented in a very accessible way. A bit too much emphasis on "everyone can find their dream job" but then that's his selling point. In reality, the majority of people will be satisfied with a job they do not hate and that doesn't make them miserable and that makes them enough money to afford their life and leisure activities. And that's completely OK.

But if you have never gone through the process of taking inventory about your likes/dislikes, strengths/weaknesses and how they relate to your job, this is a decent how-to manual.