Alright, this book is a little better.
I will admit that Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans was better than I thought. However, I still found it to be a drag. An utterly droll task that I must complete. A pile of dry, unpleasant kibble next to the seasoned, juicy steak that is Herbert West-Reanimator or The Island of Dr. Moreau. Perhaps that’s it? Am I just not extraordinarily excited about books like Leadership Jazz and Designing Your Life because I feel that there is other important work that I need to be doing? No, that couldn’t be it because I definitely have time for everything so there’s no reason to be stressed.
This leads me to one conclusion. I simply must be a rebel at heart. While I recognize that I have these negative feelings (that perhaps are not always entirely useful to me), I am also able to take a step back and see that I have them. I am able to begrudgingly complete my necessary work without my attitude affecting my efficiency. Ultimately, I am not wanting to feel this negative, but I do. So, it’s decided then. Rebel. Case closed, and no more negative rants in these posts. I’ll leave it at that and I’ll just give my opinions on the book in subsequent class essays.
So first, the things that I liked about Designing Your Life. There are some legitimately important things for us to read in here for college students. Designing a life is so incredibly poignant for us to be learning about now, since we are coming up to the point where we have to truly design a life for ourselves for the first time. Of course, iteration will happen and we will go through many different designed lives. This point in time is huge though since we’re moving to the first time we have to figure out a completely independent setup. It’s great to be reading about starting from where you are, because it’s oh so important to have perspective. “How to not get a job” is coming at a perfect time, since I’m about to try to find a job myself. The overall content of this book was actually pretty great.
Now, the things I didn’t like. This time the things I liked won out! How heartwarming. Anyways, I did not like the presentation of the book. Like The Right-Brained Business Plan before it, this book likes to have all kinds of little special sections, and passages, and visuals, and explanations. I don’t personally like this style at all. I feel pandered to, or like I’m reading some kind of weird children’s book for adults. I know that some people learn better with all the extra stuff jammed into the book, but I really just prefer text in chapter form for this kind of thing. Not a huge gripe, just found myself rolling my eyes a little bit.
And that’s about it. Other than this, “On Zombies” should be coming online this weekend, and I’m working very hard to complete my song about cults and my song about zombies. They’re coming along. Have patience!