The quality of your life depends on the choices you make. "You need to get clear enough about your commitment to the quality of your life that you can take potent and resourceful action to make your commitments become your reality… Don't just fit your career change into the cracks of your life. Lore clearly respects his readers enough to be deeply straight about what has to be done in order to make a shift into a fulfilling career. Many, in my experience, will even go so far as to make your excuses for you. They take a tone that combines expertise and authority with a super-chatty, friendly voice. In most career-change books, you get the strong feeling that the author wants you to like them. And sometimes what's really going on isn't particularly savoury. It's also often about being honest about what's really going on underneath the excuses and the fears and the uncertainties. It's about having someone there to call you out when you're letting yourself down. To be coached means opening yourself up to new ways of looking at things. In The Pathfinder, Lore makes his intention very clear: that this book is the closest he could get to coaching you, in person, through your career change. Others take the 'inspiring quotations and feel-good ideas' approach. Many career-change books that I'm sure you've come across aim to do this through exercises and tick-boxes. The Pathfinder is designed to take you through a clear process to define and move into a career you love. You've never used a book like this before. This is the opening line of Nicholas Lore’s The Pathfinder.Īnd what’s key about this bold opening is not so much the claim that he’s making, but the terminology he’s chosen. "You have never used a book like this before." Natasha shares her thoughts on Nicholas Lore’s extensive book, and picks out its best lessons for your career change. And you’ll need some serious stamina to make it to the end. Bold, challenging and comprehensive, The Pathfinder is about as close as you’ll get to being coached without booking a session with a professional.
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