There are fictional and “Nonfiction” books and there are “practical” books. This New York Times bestseller is something like a well-ordered chain of guidelines, but not just a set of instructions to tell you how to build a life the same way you can build a Swedish wardrobe. Let’s say that is more like a guide on how to use LEGO bricks, in general, but without fixed figures to follow. One of the authors is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford, with a lot of experience in design; the other one is a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, a former early employee at Electronic Arts.
If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by positive people, you’ve probably been told that you can actually try to follow your dream and spend the majority of your time in what you really like, toward a life full of joy – but when it’s time to give practical advice, just embarrassing common sense or silence. Others say life, unless you’re born in a rich family, it’s just blood and tears and that the only reason they waste time and effort in their ugly work is to provide food to the family.
Obviously, sometimes you may need to find a compromise due to practical limitations (if you’re 70 and just started to study medicine after a life spent selling newspapers, you may not have so many chances to discover something worth a Nobel prize), but it’s always possible to find a way to spend your time in something you really desire.
This book can help anyone to find (and follow) these ways. Because often there’s no “best path”, but it’s always useful to have a map and a compass (or a GPS tracker) to find a path in the right direction – and to check that you’re actually going in that direction.
Here, it’s the interactive mind map I created to summarize the points illustrated in the book. I strongly suggest you read it since this mind map can be useful only to provide you an idea of the content – or to review what you already studied.
Again, this post is for education purpose only, please buy the book and support the authors (moreover: the following content is intended to be used for an overview or for a quick recap after you already read the book, otherwise it’s useless if you really think to study and understand all the discussed topics.
Building a mind map that works for you!
Fantastic work!
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