My 2023 in Books.

Taken from Goodreads account.

1. Designing Your Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (4/5)

• “ “Are we there yet?” is about not being content with where you are. It’s the same question you hear from kids in the back seat during a long car ride… We’re not discontented kids in the backseat of the family minivan, but how many of us live our work lives as if we are? How often do we find ourselves waiting to get there? The place where we will finally be content and happy? We think once we have a better job, or more money, or that promotion, we will have finally arrived at the place where things are new and different and magically better. And how many of us make ourselves deeply unhappy thinking this way? The truth is, when we live our lives waiting to get somewhere, the only place we get is stuck.”
• Not all problems can be resolved. Seek an acceptable measure of resolution, not the perfect answer. Go for the Best Doable Option, not Best Theoretical Option.

2. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (4.5/5)

3. Personality isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy (5/5)

• Be open to more exposure and experiences — You can’t make decisions and choices if you don’t know they exist. Your ability to make choices is limited by your context and knowledge. When you expand that context, you expand your options. Your goals are based on what you’ve been…