Summary of Marcus Buckingham's Love and Work

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#1 Donnie Fitzpatrick, a basketball coach and career counselor at a high school north of Vancouver, has interviewed more than four thousand students over the years. He has found that the ones with the best grades and the most impressive college applications seem to well up the most.

#2 Anxiety is becoming more and more common, and is causing harm at unprecedented levels. We are all using prescription drugs to cope with our anxiety, and this is causing more harm than good.

#3 When you see someone you love losing themselves, it can be extremely difficult to deal with. You may feel shock, confusion, and rage. You may feel grief that you can’t go back and fix it for them.

#4 The author’s experiences at school and work pushed her loves away from her, until one day she was unmoored and fighting the food on her plate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822507906

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#1

Donnie Fitzpatrick, a basketball coach and career counselor at a high school north of Vancouver, has interviewed more than four thousand students over the years. He has found that the ones with the best grades and the most impressive college applications seem to well up the most.

#2

Anxiety is becoming more and more common, and is causing harm at unprecedented levels. We are all using prescription drugs to cope with our anxiety, and this is causing more harm than good.

#3

When you see someone you love losing themselves, it can be extremely difficult to deal with. You may feel shock, confusion, and rage. You may feel grief that you can’t go back and fix it for them.

#4

The author’s experiences at school and work pushed her loves away from her, until one day she was unmoored and fighting the food on her plate.

#5

The most important skills that will help you live the fullest life aren’t in any curriculum. They’re missing from high school, college, and work, which are built to distract your attention from your own unique loves and loathes and make you believe that your only challenge is to fill your empty vessel with the required skills, knowledge, grades, and degrees.

#6

Your life didn’t start out this way. You were made with love, and your parents intended for you to be happy. But as you got older, you were introduced to the world of work, which was equally fixated on how full your vessel was and how much fuller it could be.

#7

The pragmatist view is that