This is a really serious topic and I appreciate the depth of your exploration of it. That said, I must confess that you made me literally LOL from the title alone! I had the same take on this book when it was suggested to me to use with my students many years ago when I was a vocational trainer. But yes, the deeper messages are important. (Even if no one wants to be handed this when they're being laid off.)
My personal take on the general subject is that impermanence is the nature of life. Everything is constantly transforming into something else. While I've been sitting here writing this, how many cells in my body have changed? We can either take this ride bare knuckled, clenching our teeth, fighting the inevitable, or learn to trust that the ride can be as fun as we'll let it be.
Hi @indigoocean ! Thanks for the comment. I think few people understand how much change is coming really. We have just seen the start but several trends are going exponential which will radically change our assumptions about how life works! An essential toolkit to have is to recognise when your circumstances are affected by factors so big you have no control, then it is time to reposition and at least not get crushed by the changes. As you said it always has been so but we kind of had a sense of stability the since the 1960-s except the last decade maybe we saw the beginning of accelerating change.
Those trends can be both tremendously postive or negative, but certainly will be disruptive. Changing as a person is for less and less people optional...
Great points! And thanks for replying to my comment so long after you originally shared this post. 😊
No problem. The platform has serious problems with the interface ; you don't get flags for replies anymore so it is difficult to catch ... too bad people only worry about the new posts where they can make money on ...