How Will You Measure Your Life Clayton M. Christensen James Allworth & Karen Dillon Book review by Wahid Omar 26 Sept 2012 Zulqaedah 1433H 3 sections Finding happiness in your career Finding happiness in your relationships Staying out of jail Just because you have feathers…. • No quick fix to fundamental problems of life • How to think vs what to think • We decide our own strategies and methodologies • ‘theories’ – scientific approach in looking at problems and issues and finding solutions • Research, learning, thinking processes…..knowledge and wisdom Finding happiness in your career • What makes us tick • The balance of calculation and serendipity • Your strategy is not what you say it is Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it Steve Jobs Finding happiness in your relationships • The ticking clock • What job did you hire that milkshake for? • Sailing your kid’s on Theseus’s ship • The school of experience • The invisible hand inside your family Staying out of jails • Just this once….. The background • Smart, intelligent, brightest, successful people end up unhappy – Broken family – Go to jail • Manifestation of many crises faced by ‘western’ (but also our community) community • Finding more balance life: career vs life The 3 simple questions How can I be sure that: 1. I will be successful and happy in my career 2. My relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness? 3. I live a life of integrity – and stay out of jail? The best • We have much richer values • We have superior examples – Rasulullah and Sahabah and great personalities (eg: Quranic generation and generations that follow) • Up to us to dig and find the best examples to follow You are the best ummah singled out for mankind: you enjoin what is right (ma’roof), forbid what is wrong (munkar), and believe in Allah Al-Imran 110