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Ken Robinson: The element (2008, Viking)

From one of the world's leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough …

Review of 'The element' on 'Goodreads'

Well written and witty but ultimately unsatisfying.
The book is built around anecdotes that are meant to encourage and illustrate how achievable self-fulfilment is by describing people who, against all odds, managed to find their "element", follow it and thus succeed. Instead the stories, about your everyman such as Paul McCartney, Richard Branson and Arianna Huffington, usually end up as discouraging and depressing to all those many who haven't found their element. As the book's subtitle hints at, finding your passion changes everything, but the hard part is not pursuing your passion, it's finding it and for that there is no help to be found in the book.