Overcome Influence and Thrive

What are the real impacts of the advice you follow? Why everyone tells you what’s the most important thing to find in life or to understand, in order to find or be this or that? (You know, your why, your calling or passion, to be happy, successful or fulfilled, etc.) I will give you later on in this book description, two basic recommendations that will help you overcome general influence and that will be applied in the book to deconstruct misleading beliefs and common misconceptions and shortcuts often used by career guidance counselors and career change professionals for decades.
What simply looking at reality shows us is that for someone, serenity, happiness or fulfillment will be finding his purpose, for another, having a playful life, for the next guy it will be to have a 4-hour work week. To each his own way and priorities and that’s exactly the design foundation of this book. 

Why do you think you are so unsure of yourself and so stuck in your own thinking? Why don’t you know any more what you really love and what you really want? 
This is the result of influence, education, norms, psychological biases, and too many choices or options, to name a few. 

The book will address a couple of those important things. It will help you get rid of the influence preventing you from finding what you’re looking for and will liberate your brain, at least a bit. 
By now, you understand that I am defining advice as influence and you are also probably thinking that advice and guidance is what you are looking for, we are conditioned that way. Why do you think fortune tellers make so much money ?
 So, you may be asking yourself: how is he going to help me if there is no advice in the book? There is so much to say and so little space in a book description to do so, it is a daunting task and to answer this question, I will only say that my recommendations are for you to do the research and make your own mind about the facts I present and their origins. And trust me, I always encourage you to do so. You can’t include in a book the full-length or even the author summary of every scientific research you are referring to.
 It's just a part of the process to check, because as we will see, some authors and professionals alike come to conclusions the researches don't. 

In case you prefer to choose another book, please let me offer you two recommendations that I hope will help you start to overcome influence, and the good thing is, it works for everything: 
1) Question the source expertise, his career, experience and legitimity in the field. 
2) Question the reasoning or references based on beliefs, advice given, those sayings, norms and stereotypes that no one questions, those quotes with nebulous interpretation, those altered stories as argumentation to prove a point, the mentioned scientific studies that impose so-called truths, those convincing sophisms, and more specifically those career choice “theories” or “methods” biased by the way of thinking of their author that do not really give you the freedom to think. 

Take back the control of your thoughts and decisions, know what you deeply want and find your way to thrive. As an added bonus, you will soon become hard to lie to and a real bs detector. 
Philippe