What’s the Title of Your Book?
An exercise for figuring out your value at work or anywhere else
If you’ve never written a book before, you fall into one of two groups: You either will write a book someday, or you could write a book someday.
Even if you have no plans to write a book, you should figure out what your book would be. Because in some ways, it’s the central question of your life. What’s my purpose? What do I have to give? What’s my value? What am I worth? The answer is always singular, and it’s always revealing.
Everyone has a book in them. The person in your professional life you’re most happy to see at the other end of a Zoom call? Author. The Target associate who correctly guessed your star sign as she led you to the tea kettles? Author. Your favorite aunt? She could write, like, four books.
Books combine experience and knowledge with values, and the hope that others want to hear what you have to say. Everyone possesses those qualities, and everyone can combine them into an important message for the world. Here’s how to find your message.
