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Life Is in the Transitions
- Mastering Change at Any Age
- Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
A New York Times Best Seller!
A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill
Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times best sellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories in all 50 states from Americans who’d been through major life changes - from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships; from getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change.
What Feiler discovered was a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and mastering the skills to manage them is more urgent for all of us. The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We’re concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we’ve veered off course, living life out of order. But we’re not alone.
Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life, in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in 10 of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now.
The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new tool kit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before.
From a master storyteller with an essential message, Life Is in the Transitions can move listeners of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth.
Critic reviews
"This is a remarkably poignant read about the pivotal moments in our lives. Bruce Feiler gets to the heart of how turning points shape us - and how we can shape them. The wisdom and stories in this book will change the way you tell your own story." (Adam Grant, best-selling author of Originals and Give and Take)
"Crammed with cutting-edge research and compelling real-world examples, Life Is in the Transitions provides a framework of striking originality that explodes with thought-provoking insights. It has profound implications for how we view and handle the transitions - voluntary and involuntary - that increasingly disrupt our lives. And it's one of the rare books that is a pleasure to read in the moment and impossible to forget once you’ve finished the last page." (Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies)
"I don't know what’s more astonishing, the range of stories Bruce Feiler has found in asking people about their lives, or the wisdom he extracts from them. There is no more powerful reminder that the stories we inherit define success - and that definition constantly needs updating. This beautiful book is an indispensable guide to accepting change - as it really is, rather than what it’s supposed to be - and becoming who we really are." (Charles Duhigg, author of best sellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better)
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- jbarnard
- 18-12-23
I loved this!
It was amazing, informative and extremely uplifting. I loved hearing all the personal stories
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- AG
- 23-06-23
Insightful and impactful
This is a book like no other. I loved some of the learnings and reflections, and all the research that has done i to it. Feiler puts it all together in a masterful way too. Totally recommended.
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- jenny sanders
- 19-12-22
So good I binged the whole book in a weekend
This book is so affirming for all of us facing 'life quakes'. Bruce argues the linear life we may expect is not the life we are likely to get. Instead we need to become adept at change, catastrophe, opportunity, and all kinds of disruption to the linear life (university, marriage, kids, steady career progression, retirement) and make our lives meaniful. Using evidence collected from the stories of 100s of people, he offers guidance and tools to get us through the tough times. Excellent work, well written and well read.
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- pablo dublin
- 12-09-23
just another shallow self help book
I was recommended this book and started it without any prejudice. the whole first third part of the book persists too much in the woke agenda, most people are tired of this.
I was hoping for a serious book and it's the typical shallow repetition of statistics which don't apply for many and over and over a brittle idea backed by some stories which are typical self help book stories.
for example, he says, there are conditions that get worse with age like anxiety and etc and jumps to another topic. maybe the statistic says that but for me or others it's the opposite, and this affirmation I doubt it's positive for everybody.
also the identity transgender propaganda, Jesus Christ, that's okay but we are full of it man.
These kinds of authors have like tenths of similar titles, one book per brittle idea, so I checked and voilà, he has a lot 😂, not serious really, my advice is to go back to the classics.
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