{"product_id":"9781529979756-retail-what-to-make-of-a-life-cliffs-fog-fire-and-the-self-knowledge","title":"What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge","description":"Jim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing - and reconstructing - a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face repeatedly in our lives.\n\nTHE QUESTION\n\nWhat to make of a life?\n\nIt is a question we all wrestle with more than once. How do we find our way in the world? How do we make it past the cliffs, significant events that can radically change a life? How do we keep the inner fire burning bright, long and late?\n\nInspired by relentless curiosity, Jim Collins devoted a decade to studying these questions and to minutely analysing those moments when life flips from clarity to confusion and casts us into a befuddling fog.\n\nTHE STUDY\n\nHis exploration compares various lives side by side, paired together at cliffs, and analyses the different choices made and divergent paths taken.\n\nTwo rock musicians confronting a future without the group that had brought them success.\nTwo suffragists achieving their epic goal and then left with the puzzle of what to do next.\nTwo public figures tainted by scandal having to make decisions about how to rebuild their lives.\nTwo figure skaters seeking new purpose when their Olympic careers come to an end.\n\n\nWhat emerges from Collins's extensive studies - of writers, actors, scientists, leaders, and many others - is a framework for understanding how individual lives can be built, sustained, and constantly renewed.\n\nTHE FINDINGS\n\nBy examining the long arc of these remarkable lives, Collins tackles life's questions. What does it take to-\n\nDiscover a deeply fulfilling role in life - one that you are naturally 'encoded' for - and then find second one, if the first one ends?\nOvercome a major cliff - a fracture point that forces choices about what's next and calls for you to reenvision the years to come?\nMake your personal economics work so that you can focus on One Big Thing that feeds your inner fire?\nNavigate the fog when you feel uncertain or even outright lost, and build confidence step by step\nMinimise the impact of bad luck and ensure the maximum return on good luck?\nBuild personal momentum decade upon decade, so that your most creative and energetic years are spread across an entire lifetime?\nAchieve the imperative to 'Know Thyself' and apply self-knowledge to each phase of life?\n\nTHE TRANSFORMATION\n\nFor the first time, Collins movingly chronicles his own story to reveal how undertaking this project transformed him, changing his thinking and reshaping his emotions in fundamental ways. 'After this study,' writes Collins, 'I will never look at life the same ever again.'\n\nSurprising, story-driven, deeply researched, and uplifting, What to Make of a Life is a book like no other and convincingly shows how a richly fulfilled life is within reach for us all.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755521716443,"sku":"9781529979756-RETAIL","price":55.25,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/888ef30f-5447-4850-9fad-efa75247b1d8.jpg?v=1778221552","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781529979756-retail-what-to-make-of-a-life-cliffs-fog-fire-and-the-self-knowledge","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}