Guided Journey
Career Change
Switch fields without panic: find out what you want and take the first step.
The books, in order
- 1
Personal Development · 15 min
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
Spotting a faint signal of change early gives you far more choices than waking up to the problem only after it has blown up.
- 2
Personal Development · 17 min
Drive
Daniel H. Pink
Promising a prize for finishing fast can speed up mechanical tasks, but it jams the very creativity a hard problem demands.
- 3
Business · 18 min
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
A skill gains commercial meaning when it meets a problem that someone considers important to solve.
- 4
Career and Work · 17 min
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
Studying in a way that feels harder, spacing out and mixing subjects, can pay off more than the repetition that gives you a feeling of mastery.
- 5
Career and Work · 17 min
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Trading hours worked for a fixed salary creates a financial ceiling that is hard to break through, while owning a stake in projects allows your effort to keep bearing fruit even while you rest.
- 6
Career and Work · 15 min
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant
Changing your mind when a new fact comes up isn't weakness: it's a sign your head is still working, not stuck on autopilot.
- 7
Productivity and Focus · 15 min
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
Free time spent afraid to decide is worth less than free time spent really living.
- 8
Career and Work · 13 min
StandOut
Marcus Buckingham
Discovering your primary and secondary roles is worth far more than trying to be average across all nine possible profiles.
- 9
Career and Work · 18 min
How to Be Everything
Emilie Wapnick
What many people call a lack of focus is actually a different way of learning that brings together pieces from distant fields.
- 10
Career and Work · 14 min
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
According to the authors, writing down what you think about work and life often reveals that some of your goals were inherited, not chosen.
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