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Is everything you've been taught about finding fulfillment wrong?
For decades, you've been told to follow your passion, find your purpose, chase happiness. It's bad advice, and somewhere inside you already know it. You're still searching, still waiting, still wondering why work feels hollow even when you're doing everything right. In an age when AI can do your job faster and cheaper, the old playbook isn't just outdated; it's a trap.
The people who live the most meaningful lives don’t find fulfillment within themselves. They stop looking inward. Entirely.
In his most personal and provocative book yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath — whose books from How Full Is Your Bucket? to StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Eat Move Sleep have shaped a generation — reveals that your daily superpower isn't your title, your salary, or your "brand." It's your ability to contribute to others. And it’s the one skill artificial intelligence cannot replicate.
Drawing from the clarity of a man who's lived on borrowed time since a terminal diagnosis at age fifteen, Rath combines the rigor of a researcher with the candor of a friend who refuses to let you settle. You'll discover why passion is overrated, why your childhood dreams may be holding you back, and how to build work that outlasts you.
Purpose isn't something you find. It's something you build every day, during every meeting, throughout every task, guided by one defining What's the point?
This book is not for the weak-hearted. It's a direct challenge to stop sleepwalking through your career and start doing the work only you can do. Whether you're 18 and getting started, or 48 and restless, What's the Point? is a roadmap for packing more life into your work, starting today.
For decades, you've been told to follow your passion, find your purpose, chase happiness. It's bad advice, and somewhere inside you already know it. You're still searching, still waiting, still wondering why work feels hollow even when you're doing everything right. In an age when AI can do your job faster and cheaper, the old playbook isn't just outdated; it's a trap.
The people who live the most meaningful lives don’t find fulfillment within themselves. They stop looking inward. Entirely.
In his most personal and provocative book yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath — whose books from How Full Is Your Bucket? to StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Eat Move Sleep have shaped a generation — reveals that your daily superpower isn't your title, your salary, or your "brand." It's your ability to contribute to others. And it’s the one skill artificial intelligence cannot replicate.
Drawing from the clarity of a man who's lived on borrowed time since a terminal diagnosis at age fifteen, Rath combines the rigor of a researcher with the candor of a friend who refuses to let you settle. You'll discover why passion is overrated, why your childhood dreams may be holding you back, and how to build work that outlasts you.
Purpose isn't something you find. It's something you build every day, during every meeting, throughout every task, guided by one defining What's the point?
This book is not for the weak-hearted. It's a direct challenge to stop sleepwalking through your career and start doing the work only you can do. Whether you're 18 and getting started, or 48 and restless, What's the Point? is a roadmap for packing more life into your work, starting today.
- Non-fiction
- Self help
