To celebrate the dog days of summer, I’ll be posting (every Tuesday) books that have been on my goodreads ‘to-read’ list for quite some time. In case you’re not familiar, goodreads, it is one of my favorite ways to make reading a much more social activity. With the ability to create a network around what you and you’re friends are reading, want to read, and have read, goodreads brings the ‘book club’ home. If you want to learn more, see the link above, or check out my profile here.
Here are my first three recommendations for this four-part series:
Attempting to answer the question: How do I decide what to do with my life when there are so many things I want to do?
In my opinion, skip all the inspirational stories of people’s eclectic interests their creatively connected lives. Make this book an even easier read and use it for the incredibly helpful exercises it provides. Skip the book entirely if you know exactly what you want to do and how to focus your passions. If you have a million different directions your passion is pulling you, pull this one off the shelf, into your lap.
Although I recommend skipping the inspirational stories in the first book, I don’t recommend the same for this one. Exploring business models that work for social change on a macro-level, Elkington and Hartigan use real-life and incredibly inspiring stories of entrepreneurs putting these theories into practice. Not touching so much on the ‘unreasonable (business) people’ the title suggests, but more on the outmoded principles of business itself, this book is a practical intro into the field of social entrepreneurship .
This last book, Information is Beautiful, says: “no need to read!” For the more visually-inclined, here are some samples of McCandless’ amazing work:
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