I actually like this book so far. I was skimming it on the train and highlighting parts that I liked. Yes, Jarow is very verbose, but I really can't get too annoyed at that because I am the same way; I LOVE to talk and write a lot and I know that can sometimes be annoying to others. But I felt like I could really relate to his points (once he finally got around to making them. :p)
I haven't skimmed the whole thing but here are a couple of ideas that really speak to me:
• the phrases "straitjacket of their jobs" and "stepping off the treadmill we have created." Very eloquent ways to describe the very things I want to avoid and the reason I am going back to school.
• He writes that if we don't truly love our work, we will continue to "appease our deeper longings with one partial preoccupation after another." I have been doing this for years in so many different ways: through people, through addictions - both healthy and unhealthy, through various vocations and jobs and hobbies. I finally feel like I am ready to stop and devote myself to pursuing the work I love.
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