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The Career Workbook

The Career Workbook

Fulfilment at work

by The School of Life

Published by: The School of Life

Imprint: The School of Life

208 Pages, 6.10 x 8.74 in

Hardcover
9781915087058
Published: December 2023

$24.99

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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.

Introduction

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

The School of Life is here to help you learn, heal and grow. We are devoted to bringing you calm, self-understanding, better relationships, deeper friendships, greater effectiveness at work and more fulfilment in your leisure time.

We do this via our books, our app, our films, our therapeutic services and our corporate offering.

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.

"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

The Career Workbook

Fulfilment at work

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