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Resources

Additional Reading

Bolles, Richard Nelson. What Color Is Your Parachute? Berkeley,
California: Ten Speed Press, 2009. A comprehensive manual
for getting you through the career-change and interview pro-
cess. A useful resource book updated every year.
Buckingham, Marcus, and Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your
Strengths. New York: The Free Press, 2001. The book contains
an online strengths assessment that takes about twenty min-
utes to complete and will then tell you your top five strengths.
Buy it new, as you want to be able to use the onetime password
to access the assessment.
Edwards, Paul, and Sarah Edwards. Finding Your Perfect Work:
The New Career Guide to Making a Living and Creating a Life.
New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1996. A comprehensive
and very useful manual.
Ferriss, Timothy. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape the 9–5,
Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. New York: Crown
Publishers, 2007. An inspiring read with practical steps on
starting your own business while still working full-time.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. London:
Penguin Books, 2008. Gladwell tells fascinating stories of what
it really takes to be wildly successful in business.
Glassman, Bernard, and Rick Fields. Instructions to the Cook: A
Zen Master’s Lessons in Living a Life That Matters. New York:
Bell Tower, 1997. If you lack the motivation to start work on

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