Reviews for The Portable Business Writer

The average rating for The Portable Business Writer based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-18 00:00:00 Chris Cordova The central insight of this book is profound: in order to be truly successful, you need to balance your life between four areas. Happiness: Feelings of pleasure and contentment with your life. Achievement: Accomplishments that give you something to strive for, and compare favorably against the accomplishments of others. Significance: A positive impact on people you care about. Legacy: Establishing values or accomplishments that benefit others in the future. But that's pretty much all you need to know. There are lots of stories to support the thesis, but they are not necessary, because the thesis seems instinctively true to anyone who would pick up the book. There are examples of how NOT to accomplish this balance, but those are abundantly available everywhere in our culture. Where the book really falls down is in providing any level of prescriptive advice in how to live the balance that it advocates. There are no rules to identify what "Just Enough" means. There are no tools for creating a balanced lifestyle. It's all left as an exercise for the reader, claiming that each person will have to find those rules and tools themselves. Ultimately, reading this review of the book by Eric Barker gives you all the insight the whole book will provide. It is truly valuable insight, but I gained almost nothing more from having read the entire book.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-30 00:00:00 Dan Willie (1 1/2). An esteemed estate attorney turned me on to this book. It has a very simple and reasonable premise, what constitutes balance in your life. It is 280 pages of trying to understand how you handle happiness, achievement, significance and legacy in correct proportions. A chapter or two would have been fine. A couple of the case studies are interesting, most of it is overkill, but that is the nature of these books.