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It's Not About You

A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life

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It's Not About You

By: Tom Rath
Narrated by: Scott Merriman
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From the author of the #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a moving memoir and inspiring call to action for bettering your own life by doing your best for others.

Life is not about you. It’s about what you do for others. That’s the realization that has driven Tom Rath - the mega-bestselling expert in self-development research - to evolve his focus from one’s inward search for strength to the larger outward search for purposeful contribution to others. It’s Not About You is a short introduction to the next chapter in the life and career of perhaps our greatest living self-help writer.

Diagnosed with a rare genetic condition at age sixteen, Tom’s awareness of his own mortality drove him to pursue a meaningful life in the nurturing care of his family, including his eventual mentor and collaborator, Tom’s grandfather Don Clifton. In this empowering hybrid of a self-help memoir, Tom remembers and celebrates his greatest teacher as he emphatically encourages each and every one of us to answer life’s great question: What can I put into the world?

©2019 Thomas Rath (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved Social Sciences
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changed my perspective on my own life for the better in less than an hour. No harm in giving it a listen to see if it does the same for you

No better way to spend a spare hour your time

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I loved every bit of it. It is short, straight to the point, straight to the heart and most effective. I would love to share with every member of my family and friends. In fact I would love to share with the whole world. Highly recommend, especially for this younger generation.

It's about living a life of purpose

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it's a short listen but packed with thought provoking ideas of the authors life on how to put the focus in your life on doing good for others instead of feeding your own ego. I enjoyed it.

thought provoking

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struggled to finish. not really a useful message in this era of being overstretched to our individual detriment

not really the message I needed...

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Short, well read, and engaging stories. But very light on insight and learning. Entertaining enough, but also rather forgettable.

Storytelling with little content

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