Book notes - Come Alive: Live a life with more meaning and joy
When you're stuck in a career you hate, what do you do?
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I think I really absorbed the lessons in this book as I’ve made a recent change in my life based on them. The most impactful lesson I learned from this book is this: “When we only focus on the pleasure of external goals, it creates a void that can never be filled.”
I was taught that making your work align to your needs and personality was something only the most privileged could achieve. And, to be honest, I believed it. But over the years, this false belief slowly chipped away as I entertained the thought: “What if I try to do it anyway?”
Come Alive: Live a life with more meaning and joy
By Yu Dan Shi
Yu Dan Shi had the perfect life. She was a successful high-powered corporate climber, a Chinese migrant who made it in Australia. Yet, one day it came crashing down when she was wheeled into an emergency room. That was the painful moment when she realised that her life was seriously out of balance and she needed to change how she lived her life.
In this book she writes about the lessons she learned from that scary moment and how she changed her life for the better. It is a guide for those of us who put off living today because they need to do “just one more thing”, and how one should rebalance their lives so that they will be happy now rather than live for a future goal that may never arrive.