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What to Make of a Life

What to Make of a Life

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Last discussed May 18, 2026

Jim Collins' new book about self-knowledge, personal development, and life philosophy with the subtitle 'Cliffs, Fog, Fire, and the Self-Knowledge Imperative'.

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Cal Newport
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Used for: Understanding how to navigate major life changes and disruptions Praised: Paired cliff approach, interesting stories, good ideas, emphasis on second ha... vs: Similar to David Brooks's The Second Mountain and Arthur Brooks's From Streng...

"I actually enjoyed the book itself. It's sort of in the vein of the deep life. I like Jim's approach. He'll take two people with similar paths and compare the different ways that they reacted to disruptions to help understand different ways to nav..."

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Jim Collins
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"His new book is called What to Make of a Life: Cliff, Fog, Fire, and the Self-Knowledge Imperative. This is the best work of my life to date and it transformed me in the process"

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"This study has done is blown that apart for me completely in the idea that the range of things that you're encoded to potentially do is incredibly ..."

"We're going to be doing a conversation on the evening around the ideas in this book"

Tim Ferriss
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"we will certainly get to that, but we're going to meander all over the place"

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