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What Color Is Your Parachute? Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

Richard N. Bolles

The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold! For more than fifty years,

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Modern Wisdom

It was mentioned as being a book that asks questions that can lead you to self-authoring, the things you want to do in life.

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There's a book called what color is your parachute which I read at the time which is kind of asking questions that lead you to that what are you going to do there's loads of that kind of self-authorin...

— Episode: #691 - Jimmy Carr - The Secret Hacks For...

Episode: #691 - Jimmy Carr - The Secret Hacks For Living A...

It was mentioned as being a book that asks questions that can lead you to self-authoring, the things you want to do in life.

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There's a book called what color is your parachute which I read at the time which is kind of asking questions that lead you to that what are you going to do there's loads of that kind of self-authoring stuff on the internet now which is I always think it's like uh it's horoscopes for people with alibles you know the kind of it whether it's myas brigg or whatever but those are fascinating because you kind of go why do people like horoscopes I just want to read about myself yeah just yeah I'm a little bit self-obsessed and narcissistic but doing those personality tests actually if you do them seriously and the self-authoring sort of things it fantastic for kind of what who am I am I charismatic am I charming am I what's my edge what's the thing that I do that I find easy that other people find difficult and there's a little bit of gold there and I could pursue that that would be a purpose that would be something that's a true north

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

He suggested this corporatestyle guide as another resource for finding purpose and career direction.

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and there's a book called What Color Is Your Parachute? They're quite corporate, both of them, even Zen and the Art of Making a Living is quite corporate.

— Episode: Moment 65 - Jimmy Carr On Knowing You're...

Episode: Moment 65 - Jimmy Carr On Knowing You're Enough

He suggested this corporatestyle guide as another resource for finding purpose and career direction.

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and there's a book called What Color Is Your Parachute? They're quite corporate, both of them, even Zen and the Art of Making a Living is quite corporate.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Tom Hale read the book and felt it perfectly matched his desire to find work he loved and was good at, influencing his decision to start Backroads.

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I had got a hold of a book, What Color Is Your Parachute? Which I could summarize by saying, find something you love doing that you're really good at.

— Episode: Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker b...

Episode: Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a tr...

Tom Hale read the book and felt it perfectly matched his desire to find work he loved and was good at, influencing his decision to start Backroads.

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I had got a hold of a book, What Color Is Your Parachute? Which I could summarize by saying, find something you love doing that you're really good at.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

She mentioned reading the careerguidance book multiple times while searching for her purpose.

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I think I read what color is your parachute or something like that. I think I read it like three times.

— Episode: Confidence Classic: Dream It, Bet On It,...

Episode: Confidence Classic: Dream It, Bet On It, Build It...

She mentioned reading the careerguidance book multiple times while searching for her purpose.

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I think I read what color is your parachute or something like that. I think I read it like three times.

Watch What Crappens

This book was referenced to support the idea that one's next job opportunity comes from their social network rather than just their rolodex.

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there was a book called what colors your parachute by Richard bowls it said your next job is not your rolodex it's in your it's in your social network

— Episode: Feed Drop: Real Good by U.S Bank

Episode: Feed Drop: Real Good by U.S Bank

This book was referenced to support the idea that one's next job opportunity comes from their social network rather than just their rolodex.

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there was a book called what colors your parachute by Richard bowls it said your next job is not your rolodex it's in your it's in your social network

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