My knowledge of some great authors has been greatly enhanced through this book. Although I did not find his advice to be life-changing and inspirational, I did find some usefulness in his advice, some connections to his stories and I was entertained by some of his examples.In particular, I enjoyed learning more about how writers like Robert Lewis Stephenson and Jane Austen were challenged and how they faced those challenges. As with most books I read, I had to get about halfway through the book before I felt an attachment.
So when I saw David Whyte’s book with the subtitle “Reimaging Work, Self, and Relationship” I assumed it may contain some nuggets of advice I would find helpful. I don’t believe myself to be arrogant, but my imagined accomplishments far exceed my actual achievements.Three years ago I went through a divorce and this year I was laid off. Since then I have come across some of his work that rung true for me, in particular some inferences to how we have accomplished a lot more in our heads, in imagined conversations that we have with ourselves, than we have actually accomplish.
Review 2: A friend introduced me to David Whyte’s poetry last year. Review 1: I very much enjoyed this book and it introduced at least one key concept: that work, your partnership, and your personal life are not best thought of as a balance, where adding to one takes away from the other, but as a union between the things you love and putting work into finding synergies between these things will make them all better.It's a lot longer than it needs to be due to the (beautiful) flowery prose, but that's what I'd expect from a poet.
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