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How Will You Measure Your Life?

By: Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth
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Summary

In 2010, world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness.

The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer that had taken his father's life. As Christensen struggled with the disease, the question "How do you measure your life?" became more urgent and poignant, and he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students.

In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my personal relationships become enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity - and stay out of jail? Using lessons from some of the world's greatest businesses, he provides incredible insights into these challenging questions.

How Will You Measure Your Life? is full of inspiration and wisdom, and will help students, midcareer professionals, and parents alike forge their own paths to fulfillment.

©2012 Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers

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  • 20-02-21

Thought provoking listen

Overall, a nice short book that encourages one to assess their priorities. However, it offers a few interesting ideas rather than a game changer.

I'm an atheist and generally dislike any religious lines. This book has some but nothing really bothering. A bit ironic though that such an intellectual author is so religious.

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Must read for anyone that wants to live a meaningful life

This book has changed my life.

As a young man starting out in career, this book has really helped me put things into perspective.

I think without it I would have gotten caught up in the same traps that catch out the uninitiated.

Upon really thinking about my life's purpose, I now have the right mindset and metrics to go through life, free of worry, anxiety or comparison to others - free to pursue my unique truth.

Thank you Klayton.

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Interesting approach but too religious

I like the idea of applying business strategy theory to one's own life, but the book got a bit preachy and religious at certain points. Plus if you don't have children you can skip about a third of the book. This book could have been quite a bit better I feel

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Misleading Title

This is a book about business performance with some commentary on adapting that to your life.

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Candid life insight with business edge

Highly recommend it at any point in your life.

Great point of view with various angles, models and more ... Work, Life, marriage, children ... Even religion at end!

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience.

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overly religious self help book

Started off well, hard to finish as author pushes religion down reader's throat. Author very much sees life as morally black or white. Making room for the grey is moral bankruptcy in his view. I think life is more complex than what the Religious Right makes it out to be.

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Just read it...

Excellent book to get your perspective and think so about your purpose. Didn't expect to hear something that I would think about, and it made sense.

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Couldn’t engage

Found this book such a slow pace, a little bit dragging on.. hard to relate to and keep my attention, literally had to stop at chapter 2 before I even managed to give it a proper chance.., really monotonous and unfortunately too booooring

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Easily the best book i’ve ever encountered

The theories and priorities highlighted in the book are a real eye opener.

I think most people, no matter where they’re in life, would find this book useful.

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Be deliberate and be emergent

- Good intentions are not enough. You have to allocate resources.
- If we ask the right questions, the answers are generally easy to get.
- Important decisions are never marked with a neon warning sign.
- Self-esteem doesn't come from abundent rerources, but rather from achieving something important when it's hard to do.

- It often happens that we pick our career for the wrong reasons, and then we settle for those. Too many of us, who start down the path of compromise, will never make it back

- Be deliberate, have a plan; at the same time, be emergent and open to the unexpected.
- Options for stategies spring from 2 very different sources: anticipated opportunities (the ones you forsee and choose to pursue) for a deliberate strategy, and a cocktails of problems and opportunities that emerges while trying to implement the first one.

- Parents should ask themselves: has my child developed the skill to develop new skills?
- By sheltering children by the problems that arise in life, we inadvertently denied this generation the ability to build the processes and the priorities it needs to succeed.
- The greatest gifts to our kids come not from what we did, but rather from what we didn't do for them.
- You can tell the health of a company culture (or a family's) by asking: when faced with a choice on how to do something, did the employees (or the children) make the decision the culture wanted them to make? And is the feedback that they received consistent with that?

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