As a member of Generation X, I've always questioned the traditional model of go to university, get a job that leads to gradual promotions, retire at 65-ish, live on pension and savings. It just didn't sound realistic with people living longer and fewer jobs coming with funded pensions.
The 100-Year Life looks at new models for Gen X, millennials, and beyond. It shows how our lives are unlikely to have linear progression and single careers. How we are going to be working longer to finance our longer lives. How we will need to be more flexible to stay happy and healthy.
I discovered that without the benefit of this book, I had mostly been doing what they recommend anyway. I've had a variety of careers, I'm a lifelong learner, and I'm trying to save up for a decrease in working income when I reach my 60s or 70s. But this book gave me a lot of food for thought, and I'd recommend it to anyone under 60.
What will your 100-year life look like?
Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time?
Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse - life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60,…
As a communications professional, I try to incorporate plain language into all of the materials I write – from emails to books. This book made a strong case for easing the reading burden on people at work. We all spend too much time on emails, reports, websites and such, trying to find the information we need. The tips in this book will make your writing more efficient and get your message across clearly, which means you'll get better results.
A great book for anyone who sits down to write a few emails and wonders where their day went!
Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life.
Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing:
Less is more
Make reading easy
Design for easy navigation
Use enough formatting, but no more
Tell readers why they should care
Make responding easyIncluding many real-world examples, a checklist and other tools, this guide will make you a more successful and productive communicator. Rogers and…
Horror novels are usually not my thing, but Winterset Hollow was so imaginative and original that I couldn't wait to see what would happen next.
The book combines our fondest memories of the books we grew up with, about human-like animals and their funny lives. But it considers what might happen if we found ourselves in their world. I expect this novel was inspired by books like Watership Down, Animal Farm, and Alice in Wonderland, but as though they were written by Stephen King!
Some of the secondary characters were two-dimensional and contrived, but the central cast was engaging and the plot kept me on edge to the surprising end.
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle.
Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book-a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they find that much…
Dogs find plenty of reasons to be happy every day. Why do we struggle to do the same?
Be as Happy as Your Dog explains how you can learn to enjoy life like dogs do. After all, a dog's default position is to be happy-right here, right now. Bringing together the latest research from dog behavior experts and leaders in positive psychology, this book reveals easy changes you can make to level up your happiness today—and make it last—by embracing pawsitive psychology.
You will start feeling happier, even before you finish the book. Chapter by chapter, you'll get easy-to-use advice that doesn't require you to follow a complicated program or change your whole lifestyle. Dog lovers will immediately connect with the insights and realize that we can embrace the same joyful attitude as our dogs.
Dog cognition expert Dr. Brian Hare calls it "the most important book you will read this year."
