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The Counterintuitive Way to Build Resilience and Achieve Long-Term Success

By Neil Pasricha — 2019

There are times when quantity matters more than quality.

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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown.

Herminia Ibarra

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking.

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

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Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison, preventing us from achieving the love, success and happiness we want in our lives.

Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg

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This Mechanic Quit His Job to Go to Med School in His 40s

Starting med school in your 40s is daunting, but it's never too late to chase your dreams. Carl Allamby made a midlife career change after 25 years as a mechanic. He decided to trade his socket wrench for a stethoscope and chase his dream of becoming a doctor.

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So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Cal Newport’s clearly written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person’s talent and skill—and not necessarily their passion—that determines their career path. Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a PhD.

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The Art of Not Falling Apart

When life threw journalist Christina Patterson an involuntary-redundancy shaped curveball she decided to tear up the rulebook. Dreaming of revenge and irritated by self-help books, she set out to interview others who had found themselves picking up their own pieces.

Christina Patterson

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I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work (Fully Revised and Updated)

The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career, fully revised and updated for the ever-changing modern job market Despite a recovering economy, many Americans are still losing their jobs, while many who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable.

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Clocking Out: A Stress-Free Guide to Career Transitions

Clocking Out gives readers a new way to think about their careers and delivers practical advice to first assess and consolidate individual power, then make thoughtful, meaningful changes and choices for a successful transition.

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Career Pivot: Avoid Common Mistakes

In this segment about how to survive a career pivot, Founder and CEO of the Business Talent Group Jody Greenstone Miller advises career switchers to be realistic, patient, and nimble.

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Staying Stuck or Moving Forward - Dr. Lani Nelson Zlupko - TEDxWilmington

Dr. Nelson-Zlupko works as a bridge between scientific findings and real life people. She resists the notion that people’s problems are rooted in personal flaws, or that standard talk therapy is sufficient for change.

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