The Squiggly Career

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” - Bruce Lee

We invented industry and a society based on this industrial economy, rocketed our affluence, became addicted to our new lifestyle and then like jenga - had the foundations of our abstract world kicked out.


“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

So, as individuals we're in a tumult.

You perhaps misunderstood the social contract - you do your best for the company and they in their turn look out for you.

Gone are they days, when companies assessed their employees career potential and like gardeners, cultivated and tended. That's an overhead, an overhead to be offloaded.

You've been left with that role (and anyway shouldn't you have been taking a more active role in your career anyway?)

This little book is a nice primer for the ideas of self reflection, purpose and constructing a personal narrative that communicates.

There is nothing particularly new in this, the premise is similar to that of the Pacific Institute.

The difference is the price of entry. It is worth reading.