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This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Annie Grace

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini and HarperAudio

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 20th Anniversary Edition

Mitch Albom

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Marie Kondō

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential

Wim Hof and Elissa Epel PhD

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

Ethan Kross

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Austin Kleon

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Sri Swami Satchidananda

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition

Alice Miller

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Beautiful Things: A Memoir

Hunter Biden and Simon & Schuster Audio

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene, Donald Coren, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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peterst28onMay 19, 2021

There's plenty you can do, but you have to figure out what appeals to you, the tradeoffs, path, etc. I found that the book "Designing your life" really helped me. It encourages talking to people who are already in different fields / roles that interest you. When I did this, sometimes I found myself saying, "yes that sounds amazing." Other times I found myself saying, "ugh that's not what I thought it was at all."
Eventually I decided that the best move for me was to sales engineering. It's engineering-adjacent so I can make use of my years of experience, but it's people-oriented and has tons of variety. You'll probably have a different final answer, but I highly recommend the techniques in the book.
You may even find yourself a job you're excited about through the process of talking to people about what they do. https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful...
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