The Problems of Work

A Very Useful Book
If you have a job or do any kind of work (who doesn't) you can find something in this book of relevance and use.

This book helps explain "burnout" and exhaustion and how to overcome those feelings. It also helps those of us that feel we are trying to do too many things at once and how to fix that.

I recommend this simple yet "chocked full of tips" book for anyone looking to make life a little simpler and more balanced.

On What Does Holding a Job Depend?
The book consists of 200 pages. Of these, roughly 75 are appendixes (such as "further studies", "glossary", etc). The remaining 125 pages has been compiled from various L. Ron Hubbard writings.

The book starts with a chapter on insecurity and confusion. Hubbard argues that these thing happen because man lacks a stable reference point in life (which he calls "stable datum"). He explains that the purpose of the book is to provide the stable datum: "I understand about life and jobs. Therefore I can get, hold and improve them."

Some chapters might be confusing for the person not previously accustomed to Scientology teachings. This includes such methods as the tone scale and the ARC triangle (Affinity + Reality + Communication = Understanding). If you want to know more about those, you can read about those on wikipedia or search google.

However, the chapters with practical advices do build on the scientology methods. Hubbard explains the importance of...

Totally Relevant to Today's World!
I don't know about you, but this world is becoming one that I'm no longer sure of. I've always been confident in my abilities, sure that my employment would continue as long as I wanted it to, secure in the knowledge that my future looked pretty good financially, etc. But what used to be "bumps" - the stock market taking a dive, housing going down - don't seem like "bumps" anymore. They're not recovering - and rather than the government doing something to correct it, it seems we're going in the direction of things getting worse. There's more unemployment, huge taxes in the future, businesses closing! Then these "broad" problems started hitting home --- a few of my very competent friends were "let go" from their jobs. I'm actually good at what I do - but so were they! Suddenly my confidence was shattered.

I realized one thing - I had to personally do something about it. Could I change the direction some of these broad changes are taking us? Could I talk to someone and say -...

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