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The Possible Self: A Leader's Guide to Personal Development
Author(s): Maja Djikic (Author)
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Publication Date: March 5, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1523006013
- ISBN-13: 9781523006014
Book Description
Sometimes success isn’t enough—discover how to achieve lasting, whole-life fulfillment through a simple five-stage plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves.
We’re often told that the key to success in life involves advancing in our careers, but why do feel so stuck and unfulfilled when everything seems to be going right?
Adult development expert Maja Djikic explains that in order to discover our purpose and achieve real, lasting change, we need to move beyond narrowly targeted ideas and strategies like changing our mindset or slightly altering our behavior, and instead go deeper and focus on our innate desires.
Djikic claims that sustained change can only happen when all five parts of ourselves move in the same direction and at the same time. She introduces a transformational system called the Wheel of Change—a simple, five-segment plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves: Desires, Actions, Emotions, Thoughts, and Body.
By understanding the mechanisms of these five integral parts, you will be able to escape the paradox of success without happiness and move towards your own path of fulfilling self-development.
Editorial Reviews
Review
—Ellen J. Langer, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Fellow at the Sloan Foundation; and author of The Mindful Body
“A deftly articulated map and compass to the joys and difficulties of making changes, small and large, to one’s ways of being, told, importantly, in a voice at once therapeutic and awakening—a voice you want to hear when you want a partner to think and feel with.”
—Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy and Marcel Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
“Panoramic in insight and practical in approach, this book will gently guide you through your own self-development journey. Whether your aim is to better understand or to change yourself, here you’ll find the tools you need.”
—Keith Oatley, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology, University of Toronto
