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Life Is in the Transitions

Mastering Change at Any Age

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Life Is in the Transitions

By: Bruce Feiler
Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
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 A New York Times bestseller!

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 bestsellers 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 fifty 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 The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated.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 ten 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 readers of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth. Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Happiness

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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.

Insightful and impactful

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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.

So good I binged the whole book in a weekend

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It was amazing, informative and extremely uplifting. I loved hearing all the personal stories

I loved this!

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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.

just another shallow self help book

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