A beautiful, research-backed guide on how to work like the happiest people in the world, the Danes. From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Little Book of Hygge.

​Based on a new study from the Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking reveals the main factors that build happiness at work--purpose, trust, relationships, balance, and more--to show how we can reduce stress, increase productivity, and find fulfillment, both in and out of work.

It is well known that the Danes have a fantastic work-life balance, that working late is discouraged, parental leave is split equally, and long summer holidays are the norm.

They even have a word meaning happiness at work--arbejdsgl de. Meanwhile, the rest of the western world is struggling with a burn-out epidemic--but where are we going wrong? There is an alternative, and The Art of Danish Living will provoke and inspire.

The New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Body shows readers how to live more and work less, now with more than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.

Ever wonder, How can I work smarter and not harder? Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan-there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.

This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:
- How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent mini-retirements

The new expanded edition of Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek includes:
- More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
- Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal
- How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times
- The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either

Find a fulfilling career that tackles the world's most pressing problems, using this guide based on over ten years of research alongside academics at Oxford.

You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make.

Make the right choices, and you can help solve some of the world's most pressing problems, as well as have a more rewarding, interesting life.

For such an important decision, however, there's surprisingly little good advice out there. Most career advice focuses on things like how to write a CV, and much of the rest is just (misleading) platitudes like follow your passion. Most people we speak to don't even use career advice - they just speak to friends and try to figure it out for themselves.

When it comes to helping others with your career the advice usually assumes you need to work as a teacher, doctor, charity worker, and so on, even though these paths might not be a good fit for you, and were not what the highest-impact people in history did.

This guide is based on over ten years of research conducted alongside academics at the University of Oxford. It aims to help you find a career you enjoy, you're good at, and that tackles the world's most pressing problems.

It covers topics like:
1. What makes for a dream job, and why follow your passion can be misleading. 2. Why the most effective ways to make a difference aren't always the obvious ones like working at a charity, or becoming a doctor. 3. How to compare global problems, like climate change and poverty, in terms of their scale and urgency. 4. How to discover and develop your strengths.
It's also full of practical tips and tools. You'll come away with a plan to use your 80,000 hours in a way that's fulfilling and high impact.

What people are saying

A ridiculously in-depth guide about how to find that perfect career for you
- Ali Abdaal, YouTuber, ex-doctor, and productivity entrepreneur.

This career guide is among the most thoughtful and grounded I've seen
- Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University.

This incredible group is helping people have a greater social impact with their careers.
- Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Every college grad should read this
- Tim Urban, creator of Wait But Why.

Read more online
This book is based on the free guide you can find on the 80,000 Hours website, where you can find many more articles and our most up-to-date content. All profits from the book are used to fund 80,000 Hours, expanding our research and enabling us to reach more people.

About the authors
80,000 Hours is an independent non-profit founded in Oxford in 2011. It performs research into career choice, and provides online and in-person advice.

Benjamin Todd is the co-founder and president of 80,000 Hours. He grew the organisation from a student society at Oxford to the organisation it is today. He has a Master's degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly.

Ben is advised by the rest of the 80,000 Hours team.

Discover the most important life advice for teenage boys!

Being a boy isn't as easy as it might sound. While often misunderstood and overlooked, you may struggle to find an outlet or resource to help you understand what you're going through and how to overcome it. 101 Things Every Boy Should Know is the perfect gift for you or any young man in your life!

But, how will understanding boyhood lead to success in adulthood?

It's not uncommon for young men to question themselves and feel uncertain about the future. You know that you want to become the best version of yourself, but you're unsure how to break out of the current cycle you're in despite wanting greater control over your journey in life. Yet, through the power of knowledge and self-awareness, you can envision and create the life you want to live.

In 101 Things Every Boy Should Know, you'll learn how to:

• Accept yourself for who you are
• Be more respectful and maintain healthy, wholesome relationships with those around you
• Set yourself on the path to success
• Value your life experiences and use them to your advantage
• Discover and define the values that are most important to you
• Cope with changes as they come
• Build stronger relationships with your siblings, parents, and grandparents
• Practice self-care because it's NOT just for girls
• And so much more!

Use this book as your how-to guide to boyhood and manhood, jotting down plenty of notes as you work through one chapter at a time. You'll quickly learn more about yourself, your values, and what you truly want to accomplish in life over the next several years, which can encourage you to embark on the most exciting and unforgettable journey.

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This is a handbook of incalculable brilliance. You'll instinctively know the lessons that resonate with you. Nile Rodgers

I wish I had this book years ago when I started my business. Thomas Heatherwick

Discover the secrets to building a thriving creative business and unleashing your full creative potential with The Creative Entrepreneur. Learn from ten of the world's most inspiring entrepreneurs, including Grammy winner Nile Rodgers and Emmy-winning producer Andy Harries (The Crown), as they share their stories, actionable advice, and recommendations to help you succeed in business and fuel your life potential.

Unlock your creativity and transform your career with a new, mission-driven perspective from these industry icons in design, fashion, art, film, music, and more.

Featuring transformative wisdom from creative leaders:

• BUILD A CREATIVE BUSINESS: An insider's guide to building a business with advice on branding, intellectual property, networking, and more.
• CASE STUDIES FROM INDUSTRY ICONS: Exclusive insights from leaders across creative fields, including Nile Rodgers, The River Café's Ruthie Rogers, and Soho House founder Nick Jones.
• FOR AMBITIOUS PROFESSIONALS: Perfect for those looking to start a business, build a brand, secure investment, harness creativity to succeed at a company, or turn a hobby into a side hustle.
• RAPIDLY GROWING ECONOMIC SECTOR: The creative sector is one of the fastest growing contributors to the global economy.

Included in the book:
- Unheard stories and exclusive interviews with inspiring creative entrepreneurs.
- Key takeaways to reinforce and easily review important points.
- Lessons learned from the journey of creative leaders.
- Essential business topics, such as building a brand and marketing.

Buy now and take the first step towards unlocking your creative potential and building a successful creative business or career.

Features interviews with:
Nile Rodgers, Co-Founder, The Chic Organization
Roksanda Ilincic, Founder, fashion label Roksanda
Yinka Ilori, Founder, Yinka Ilori Studio
Andy Harries, Founder, Left Bank Pictures (The Crown)
Priya Ahluwalia, Founder, fashion label Ahluwalia
Thomas Heatherwick, Founder, Heatherwick Studio
Matthew Slotover, Co-Founder, Frieze
Ruthie Rogers, Founder, The River Cafe
Strauss Zelnick, CEO Take-Two Interactive (Grand Theft Auto)
Nick Jones, Founder, Soho House

Excellent.--The Wall Street Journal

Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they're passionate about. Now this classic has been updated and revised with new research and takeaways to help anyone achieve even greater performance.

Why are certain people so incredibly great at what they do? Most of us think we know the answer--but we're almost always wrong. That's important, because if we're wrong on this crucial question, then we have zero chance of getting significantly better at anything we care about.
Happily, the real source of great performance is no longer a mystery. Bringing together extensive scientific research, bestselling author Geoff Colvin shows where we go wrong and what actually makes world-class performers so remarkable. It isn't specific, innate talent, nor is it plain old hard work. It's a very specific type of work that anyone can do--but most people don't.
What's more, the principles of great performance apply to virtually any activity that matters to you. Readers worldwide have been inspired by this book's liberating message: You don't need a one-in-a-million natural gift. Better performance, and maybe even world-class performance, is closer than you think.

Ron Rapatalo, career shepherd, executive, motivational speaker, and podcast host of RONderings grew up in the hustle and bustle of New York City. The son of immigrants, he learned early to seek out a circle of champions that would help him up-level to the life of his aspirations.

After advising a generation of leaders to up-level their own lives and careers by leveraging the people who love them personally and professionally, Ron is now bringing his tips, tricks, and stories to the general public.

Leverage is a book that is written like a conversation. It starts to unfold with the lessons from Ron's unique childhood teachers, and it continues to unwrap transformation stories and eureka moments until the reader is left with a simple path toward realizing their own dreams and aspirations.

Convincing yet open, friendly yet full of edge, Ron counsels with simplicity and depth, and with thought leadership and grit.

He admits that he didn't want to write the typical Here's how to network book, full of how-tos and strategies. Ron writes, Career networking has a history of transactional situations and anxiety. It doesn't have to be that way. This book is an accumulation of the stories and values of the people who are in my circle of champions, how to find the archetypes of these people and the lessons I have learned from them.

Everyone in business should pick up this book, and realize that they are already surrounded by the champions they need, in order to shift the Earth on its axis.

The groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller that taught a generation how to transform their careers--now in a revised and updated edition

A profound book about self-determination and self-realization.--Senator Cory Booker

The Startup of You is crammed with insights and strategies to help each of us create the work life we want.--Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

In this invaluable book, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today's competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a startup business: a living, breathing, growing startup of you.

Why? Startups--and the entrepreneurs who run them--are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage.

These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today.

This book isn't about cover letters or résumés. Instead, you will learn the best practices of the most successful startups and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career. Whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, stitch together multiple gigs in a portfolio career, or are launching your own venture, you need to know how to

- adapt your career plans as pandemics rage and technologies upend industries
- develop a competitive advantage so that you stand out from others at work
- strengthen your professional network by building powerful alliances and maintaining a diverse mix of relationships
- engineer serendipity that produces life-changing career opportunities
- take proactive risks to become more resilient to industry tsunamis
- tap your network for information and intelligence that help you make smarter decisions

The career landscape has changed dramatically in the decade since Hoffman and Casnocha first published this guide. In an urgent update to the frameworks that have helped hundreds of thousands of people transform their careers, this new edition of The Startup of You will teach you how to achieve your boldest professional ambitions.

Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. President-elect, reality-television star, and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's also become one of the world's wealthiest men.

Trump is a living example of how thinking BIG and knowing when to back up your opinions aggressively--regardless of what your critics or opponents might say--can help you maximize your personal and professional achievements. In his first political campaign, Trump defeated his opponents by rallying voters nationwide to Make America Great Again. For the first time ever, you too can learn Trump's secrets to thinking BIG and kicking ass! Learn:

• Momentum: the Big Mo. How to get it and how to get it back.
• Revenge: how and when to get it (and why it's so sweet).
• I love you, now sign this! Why contracts in business and personal life are so important.
• Real-life stories from people who've applied the think BIG formula in their own lives.

These strategies are proven and attested to by those who've learned to think BIG from Donald Trump and found success in their own lives even when the world seems to be against them. Co-authored with Bill Zanker, an entrepreneur who learned these tactics firsthand from Trump, Think BIG and Kick Ass shows you how to bring a winning attitude to everything you do.

Imagine you're one of 75,000 people working in a huge company, and the CEO wants to talk to you, one-on-one, to get to know and understand you. That's what Monty Moran did 20,000 times as he built the extraordinary culture that took Chipotle Mexican Grill from a regional burrito chain to a Fortune 500 superstar. In Love Is Free, Guac Is Extra, Monty shows how he used curiosity, vulnerability, love, and a unique understanding of the true meaning of empowerment to build a distinctive and wildly effective culture. From his teenage days befriending homeless people at a Colorado Dairy Queen to his nuanced navigation of a complex co-CEO relationship, Monty demonstrates a relentless humility and desire to understand the person across from him. This is not your average leadership book. This is a book about business leadership executed in a way you've never encountered before, by becoming the best version of yourself.

A Practical Guide to Your Authentic Health Career

Whether you are a student or recent graduate, a health professional, or are considering a career change to the health field, this book provides the framework, exercises and insights you need to advance from where you are today to experience the joy, power, and success that comes from living your authentic life and career.

In You Don't Have to be a Doctor, Jeff Oxendine guides readers through a proven nine-step process to choose their authentic health career path, secure jobs, and navigate life and industry changes. Readers are empowered to make choices in alignment with emerging industry needs, their values, passions, goals, and what they are good at and enjoy. Readers can develop an action and accountability plan to achieve their goals.

The book does not discourage anyone from being a doctor or pursuing any specific health profession. It emphasizes the importance of critically assessing and choosing a path aligned with who you are and what you want from your life and career and provides proven tips and tools for success.

It takes a few wrong turns to find the right way.

Paul Millerd thought he was on his way. From small-town Connecticut kid to the most prestigious consulting firm in the world, brushing shoulders with CEOs and with the resume to match.

The Pathless Path is about finding yourself in the wrong life, and the real work of figuring out how to live. Through painstaking experiments, living in different countries and the goodwill of people from around the world, Paul Millerd pieces together a set of ideas and principles that guide him from unfulfilled and burned out to the good life and all of the existential crises in between.

This book is a personal journey of awakening and is an ideal companion for people considering leaving their jobs, embarking on a new path, dealing with the uncertainty of an unconventional path, or searching for better models for thinking about work in a fast-changing world.

Reader feedback:

It's a rare book in that it is tangentially about careers and being more focused and productive, but unlike almost every other book I have read about these topics, I finished this one and felt better about myself and my career.

The themes are timeless. The content is expertly written. The advice is refreshingly non-prescriptive.

If you have questioned your own path, or a nagging lack of intention in your choices you need this book. If you have felt a gradual loss of agency in your direction you need this book. You are in the grip of an invisible script that was not written for you. - Kris Abdelmessih

The writing is fantastic - Paul's writing is approachably poetic; a quick read that weaves together his own experience moving from a 'default path' overachiever to a 'pathless path' seeker of passion and curiosity, deep research into the history of work and collections of perspectives from years of podcasting, friendship, conferences, and meetings with other 'alternative path' life-livers.

Drawing on more than fifteen years of C-suite experience, author Lenetra King provides a much-needed resource for leaders of color to navigate and succeed in corporate environments.

No matter where you are in your career journey, but especially if you are an emerging leader or executive of color trying to advance your corporate career and looking for additional tools to enhance your leadership portfolio, this book is for you.

The playbook focuses on critical competencies for success, and each chapter drills down to specific insights and guidance including:

- cultivating a bold personal brand

- navigating workplace politics

- the critical role that sponsors play in career advancement

- learning when and when not to self-promote

Validated by research on the environment facing leaders of color as well as extensive interviews with BIPOC leaders, Unwritten Insights explores existing challenges and barriers, and shows how to expand your leadership abilities, propelling your career to new heights and amplifying your voice in corporate spaces.

Say no to a culture of constant work.

We often equate our productivity with the number of hours we spend working. But do we really need to work endlessly, through weekends and during vacations, to be seen as stars? To find a healthy balance between our personal and professional lives, we need to make space for ourselves, define what we value most, and set goals that take those values into account.

Boundaries, Priorities, and Finding Work-Life Balance is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer questions like:

• How do I set clear boundaries around my work life and my personal life?
• How can I pursue my passions while making time for my job?
• What are the signs of burnout and how do I conserve my energy?
• What steps can I take to protect my mental health at work?

You'll spend a significant part of your life working. This book will help you define what you need to feel balanced and fulfilled, on or off the clock.

Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice. The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.

The world is changing and so is the marketing profession. CMOs and the next generation of marketing leaders need to read this book to develop a strategy for ensuring operational excellence to achieve their goals. This book will provide a best practices approach for forming your marketing goals, creating a strategy, building a plan, crafting impactful campaigns, optimizing budgetary spending, and measuring true ROI. This book provides models, practical approaches, and templates to help the reader structure their own marketing strategy.

Are you looking to transform your career and achieve your full potential at work? Do you wish your employer recognized your talent and contributions more? This book reveals the insider secrets to becoming the most valued employee.

Bestselling authors Verne Harnish, Kevin Daum, and Anne Mary Ciminelli surveyed hundreds of employers to uncover what sets adequate employees apart from truly valuable players. Through insightful stories and practical tips, you'll learn the 12 key habits in four essential areas - Will, Values, Results, and Skills - that lead to amazing careers and fulfillment at work.

Discover within:

• Clear examples contrasting adequate versus valuable performance
• Simple daily practices to master essential workplace skills
• Ways to apply the habits to benefit your team, department, and company
• Bonus guidance for employers seeking to inspire value in their workforce

Whether you aspire to leadership or want recognition for your efforts, this book provides the mindset and methods for workplace excellence. Follow this step-by-step guide based on decades of coaching successful companies, and develop the qualities that define MVP employees.

Stand out by embracing the 12 habits of top performers. Transform your work, team, and career to new heights!

*USA TODAY Bestseller*

A compass for those navigating their professional journeys (Forbes) that reveals often surprising work advice (New York Post), this empowering guide, from former PepsiCo COO Grace Puma and former Nike President of Consumer Direct Christiana Smith Shi, shows how to prioritize a career path, build professional value, and enjoy a full life both in and out of the workplace.

At a time when many long-held workplace structures and beliefs are changing, Career Forward is a beacon for women aspiring to achieve success and satisfaction in rewarding careers. Drawing on decades of experience reaching the top of Fortune 500 companies, Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi show women how to maximize their career journeys, get paid what they're worth, navigate the shifts that occur in any company, build a leadership identity, and have a full life in and out of work.

The authors challenge negative stereotypes about female ambition, and urge women to be bold, follow their dreams, and seize the chance to lead big lives. The secret is to focus on career first, job second. Instead of chasing a better job title or a salary bump, the goal should be a long-range career path that leads to success. Career forward means keeping a focus on the future and recognizing that being good at your job is often not enough--that you should take every opportunity to boost your connections, take on difficult assignments, and work actively to broaden your skills.

Packed with personal anecdotes and wisdom from women who've been there, and featuring quizzes and checklists for self-evaluation, Career Forward provides a wealth of valuable lessons, including the advice to think of yourself as a growth stock and, instead of chasing the elusive work-life balance, living a well-rounded 360-degree life that fully embraces both. Offering a refreshing response to anyone who wonders whether working hard is really worth it, Puma and Smith Shi's emphatic answer is yes, because by correctly following the blueprint in Career Forward, the rewards will far outweigh the effort.

Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

...this guide provides readers with much more than just early careers advice; it can help everyone from interns to CEOs. -- a Financial Times top title

You've landed a job. Now what?

No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted.

The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules--the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize.

The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error.

Until now.

In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as:

• How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities?
• How do I build relationships when I'm working remotely?
• How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy?

The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.

Chertavian] demonstrates that with hard work and the right supports ... young adults can overcome even the toughest of circumstances.--Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone

There are many good jobs in America--and many urban young adults eager to take them--if they can bridge the Opportunity Divide that strands many motivated workers at the bottom of the job ladder.

In 2000, Gerald Chertavian, a successful technology entrepreneur and banker, dedicated his life and business expertise to founding Year Up, an intensive one-year program that provides otherwise stranded young adults with training, mentorship, internships, and ultimately real jobs. Following a single Year Up class from admission through graduation, A Year Up lets students share - in their own words- the challenges, failures, and personal successes they experience during the program. It is the inspiring story of a pioneering program that is bridging the Opportunity Divide, with results that can fuel our economy and revive the American ideal of equal opportunity for all.

Donald J. Trump es un cono: la definici n misma del sue o americano. Candidato republicano presidencial, estrella de programa de television, empresario de bienes ra ces de algunas de las propiedades m s prestigiosas del mundo y ha logrado convertirse en uno de los hombres m s ricos del mundo. Trump es un ejemplo de c mo pensar en grande y saber cuando respaldar tus opiniones agresivamente--sin que te importen las cr ticas--puede ayudarte a maximizar tus logros personales y profesionales. En su primer campa a pol tica, Trumps derrot a sus oponentes al invitar a los votantes de toda la naci n a Hacer grande a Estados Unidos de nuevo Ahora, por primera vez, aprender s el secreto del xito de Donald Trump Aprender s acerca de: - Tomar impulso: c mo obtenerlo y c mo reencontrarlo. - La venganza: cu ndo y c mo conseguirla (y por qu es tan dulce). - Te quiero, pero toma esto porqu los contratos en la vida profesional y personal son esenciales. - Historias reales sobre personas que han aplicado el secreto del xito a sus propias vidas. Estas estrategias han sido comprobadas y respaldadas por aquellos que han aprendido el secreto del xito de Donald Trump y han encontrado el xito en sus propias vidas incluso cuando el mundo parece estar en su contra. Junto a Bill Zanker, un empresario que aprendi estas t cticas de primera mano, este libro te ense ar a tener la ventaja ganadora en todo lo que emprendas.