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Title: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was : How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher ISBN: 0-440-50500-3 Publisher: DTP Pub. Date: 05 August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (62 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hit home, unlike other books on uncertainty
Comment: I LOVED this book. The only book on finding a career direction that has been helpful to me. It was so different, in the way that it explained to me what has been blocking me from going after my true desires. The other books I have read just did a bunch of career assessments and personality assessments. Who needs that? I know my personality already, I don't need someone to test me on it. Barbara Sher went so deep into a person and why their desires remain repressed. She had different chapters for different types of situations. It was like a personalized book. I highly recommend this book. It gets to the root of the problem, and motivates you to get out there and go after what you want. She tells you to start NOW, which is scary, but that is what is stopping you...the scare. Buy this one...I promise, you will be glad you did!!
Rating: 3
Summary: If you have to start from the beginning, I'm all for it
Comment: I haven't finished the book yet, but...
I am a 22 year old 5th year junior in college, and for the longest time I haven't had the slightest clue what's wrong with me. I find this book very emotionally challenging, and use it for just that: a challenge. I agree that it is rather vague, but there are some of us who have to start from scratch on this sort of thing. I DID NOT find Parachute to be at all helpful (after spending several weeks on it) for the simple fact that *I don't know what I want*! That was a very frustrating feeling, and this book speaks my particular situation.
I got a little turned off by the positive-attitude thing; after a while I just didn't want to listen to it any more. I'm VERY glad I'm not listening to this on tape.
Not for the very experienced, I imagine, but definitely for me, as a rock-bottom-ground-floor beginner.
Rating: 5
Summary: Helpful in taking that first step around resistance
Comment: This is a book that has received mixed reviews by readers. Some perhaps are insulted about it's hand-holding approach, others perhaps are offended by its "overly ying" encouragement for expressing emotions.
I can only say that I related fully with this book. It confronted me with my resistance, and encouraged me gently to face up to it. My immediate reaction was wishing the people around me had also read this book, because it was still very difficult speaking with them about dispelling the rat-race mentality. Being from Latin America, the tendency to pigeonhole people around their first career is much stronger than in industrialized countries, which makes the pressures against changing careers that much greater.
My only regret with this one is having lent it out too soon, after reading through it only once, but I was in that much of a hurry to share the inspiration!
The lessons from the book, in any case, have stayed with me, more than 5 years after reading it. I still suggest some of the exercises from it on ocassion, to to loved ones who can't quite face up to their displeasure with their "established" careers.
I am tempted to buy another copy soon, to hand over once again. I kind of like the feeling of seeing my friends getting started on their own gentle awakenings.
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