Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career
An inspiring, wise, and highly practical method for discovering your true self and the fulfilling career meant just for you.
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How do I find my purpose with Becoming You?
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Excavate your values – the deeply-held beliefs, motivations, and desires that drive your decisions and actions.
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Uncover your aptitudes — the natural cognitive and emotional tendencies that shape how you think, relate, and behave.
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Identify your economically viable interests – the types of industries and job roles that fulfill you intellectually and financially.
We’ve all had that moment when we’ve wondered, “What’s my purpose? What will make me feel hopeful and alive?”
We’ve all had that moment when we’ve wondered, “What’s my purpose? What will make me feel hopeful and alive?”
No matter what stage we’re at in our lives, be it atop the heights of achievement or just setting out on our journey, Becoming You meets you where you are.
Enter Becoming You, a joyful, deeply researched, and immediately applicable step-by-step guidebook to help you answer that very question. Based on the phenomenally popular NYU class by the same name, and used by thousands of people around the world, Becoming You is an empathetic yet absolutely zero-BS method designed to help you understand where you want to go and what you want to do in today’s ever-changing world.
Professor Suzy Welch, a respected expert in careers, decision-making, and identity formation, is the director of the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, and a former columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine, she has consulted for some of America’s largest companies, is a frequent commentator for the Wall Street Journal, and is a regular guest on NBC’s Today and on CNBC. Her previous three books have been New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, and her fast-growing, authentic, and often hilarious Becoming You podcast has fans worldwide. But more than anything, Professor Welch is a teacher and an agent of transformation.
After a life filled with wide and varied experiences, from crime reporter to tech entrepreneur, she has learned that her own purpose is helping others find theirs. Out of fifteen years of researching and testing, she created Becoming You, with the heartfelt goal of helping people discover a way forward in a complex world. To that end, Becoming You guides readers through the process of excavating their truest values, identifying their outstanding aptitudes, and, finally, pinpointing their economically viable interests — that is, the kind of work that calls them emotionally and intellectually, and also makes sense financially. Ultimately, Becoming You — by turns warm, witty, pragmatic, and filled with tough love — is your guide to having the life you were meant to live.
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