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		<title>What Is the Greatest Book on Working Ever Written?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 22:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studs Terkel / Photo by James Warden What is the greatest book on working ever written? Easy. Studs Terkel's Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do. The Chicago oral historian and radio host died in 2008 while I was researching my own book, How to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Fulfilling Work in 15 Minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The School of Life launched its new practical philosophy book series, we celebrated with an event in London where each of the six authors &#8212; amongst them philosopher Alain de Botton &#8212; did a 15-minute talk distilling the most important and inspirational ideas from his or her book. We did our very best to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Personal Job Ad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How are you supposed to discover your ideal job? The standard method is to fill out lots of questionnaires about your strengths and weaknesses, take some psychometric tests, and spend hours researching various professions. Well, here's an alternative. It's an exercise called The Personal Job Advertisement, which I devised for the courses on career change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Aim to Be &#8220;Wide Achievers&#8221; in Our Careers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last century everyone from career advisers to nagging parents have been telling us that the best way to use our talents is to become a high achiever &#8212; an expert in a narrow field. But one of the surprising discoveries I made while writing my latest book, How to Find Fulfilling Work, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Change the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John-Paul Flintoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write another book. The previous two were regularly described as "fun" and "funny," but this one would be based around the ideas of Gene Sharp, the Boston-based academic once described as the "Clausewitz of non-violence." (Are you still with me? Hang in there for a second.) Sharp's work inspired and underpinned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Your Triumphs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John-Paul Flintoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you changed your behavior because of something somebody said? Don't think too hard &#8212; it was probably only a few minutes ago. The things we say, and the way we say them, have an enormous effect on the people around us.The things we say, and the way we say them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John-Paul Flintoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think this post is going to be all about my book, forget it. Instead, I want to tell you about my friend Roman Krznaric, who is blogging here next week. We're being published together, on the same day. And I can assure you that Roman's book, How to Find Fulfilling Work, is really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Change Starts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John-Paul Flintoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been trying to make myself a better writer &#8212; and a better human being &#8212; as part of the growing Quantified Self movement. When I was researching the mysterious process of how change happens for my book How to Change the World, I compared the broad, sweeping theories of political scientists such as Gene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Be Heroes (Yes, You Too)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John-Paul Flintoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was feeling stuck with a problem I couldn't resolve. So I asked Nelson Mandela for advice. I don't need to tell you the details, because the advice was given in strict confidence. But I strongly recommend that if you too get stuck you try getting in touch with Nelson yourself. And if Nelson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Scenes from My Book Launch: The Stud Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started writing, I'd ride my bike to work. I always had an office job and a gallery job, two or three or more part-time jobs piled up on top of each other. I still have a version of that. In the early evening, on the way home I'd swing by Powell's. I'd [...]]]></description>
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