How to Find Fulfilling Work

Written by Roman Krznaric and Campus London LTD (The School of Life)

Narrated by David Thorpe

Find life-enhancing work and realise your potential with this enlightening read. This is a book about how to take working life in new directions – how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are filled with pop psychology and bullet-point advice for writing CVs and making action plans, but How to Find Fulfilling Work casts its net wider. While not ignoring the insights of psychology or the need for practical planning, it reveals wisdom about work found in sociology, history, literature, film and philosophy.

It may be a false illusion that there is some perfect dream job out there for us, an ideal calling or vocation. But this book is premised on the idea that it is possible to find work that is life-enhancing. This is a book that inspires as much as it instructs and will aid self-reflection about the wider quest of how to live a good life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: May 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9780230764545

Roman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric is a co-founder of The School of Life in London, where he designed and teaches courses about Work. He has been named by the Observer as one of Britain's leading lifestyle thinkers, and advises organisations including Oxfam and the United Nations on using empathy and conversation to create social change. His latest book, on what we can learn from history about the art of living, The Wonderbox, will be published by Profile in January 2012.

Reviews for How to Find Fulfilling Work

[Bornik C · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A good introduction on how to find a fulfilling work in western world. Author describes most important topics in easy to understand manner. I would recommend this book to people trying to find meaning in their job and life.