This book will push you to look inside yourself. It will help you ask better questions so that you can become the best leader you can be.
Without a doubt, this will easily become one of the books that I’ve gifted the most.
It is a valuable resource for people who journal and dedicate time to reflect. The book will make it clear that we all have access to the answers we are searching for, but we’ve been looking for these in the wrong places.
This is one of those books that can and should be read several times in a lifetime and each time it will likely be a different book.
Flow: 4/5, this is a book that should NOT be read without pauses to reflect
Actionability: 5/5, although there are no specific step-by-step instructions, you’ll get a lot of insights that can be applied to your life (and especially to your journaling practice)
Mindset: 5/5, this book has the power to change your life
Some Of My Highlights:
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“Such revealed wisdom is often better than discovered wisdom.”
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“There’s a wisdom in being able to discern when the job is done. For the job to be done, we must know that it’s time to let go of the striving to become and allow ourselves the restful grace of simply being.”
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“‘ I am not what happened to me,’ taught Carl Jung.’ I am what I choose to become.'”
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“To live well is to see wisely and to see wisely is to tell stories.”
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“The goal is to buy low and sell high, not to buy lowest and sell highest.”
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“The toughest aspect of being a leader -hell, of being an adult – is meeting the world as it is and not as we wish it to be.”
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“Without heat, there is no alchemy.”
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“Pema taught me that we must lean into the suffering and befriend it.”
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
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“It takes a warrior’s courage to stand still long enough for us to inquire within and remember our past.”
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“…a good first step to figuring out where you want to is remembering how you got here.”
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“How, indeed, have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? More to the point, what am I willing to give up to stop being complicit?”
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“The path to a purpose-grounded life is messy, muddy, rock-strewn, and slippery.”
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“The path requires standing still, radically inquiring within, learning to bear the pain of uncertainty.”
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“The voice of the inner critic is meant to protect us from humiliation and shame, from the risks of being found out – from being seen as the impostor, the charlatan, we fear we may be – or think we already know we are.”