New Book: “How to Work on Oneself”

Published on June 2, 2016 (↻ November 18, 2024), filed under (RSS feed for all categories).

EPUB and PDF, with updates, at Leanpub (other options).

Doubt led me to explore ways to grow, doubt now led me to ask my editor three times whether to publish under a pseudonym: I sketched, in what resembles an essay, how to learn, how to grow, or—How to Work on Oneself.

Format and price Ebook (EPUB and PDF), $5.99
Kindle ebook (free app for Android and iOS), $5.99
Paperback, $7.99
Preview Select chapters (PDF, 230 KB)
Length 43 pages
Sellers Amazon
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Leanpub
Gumroad
ISBN 978-0-9911480-4-2
Latest version 1.5.17 (bought the book, but reading an old version? contact me, maybe I can help)

Description

The cover of “How to Work on Oneself.”

How can we learn more effectively? How can we best work on ourselves? How do we grow? That is the subject of this brief book, this short sketch by interim philosopher and world traveler, Jens Oliver Meiert. A light treatise on personal growth, he goes over 20 paths to get to know ourselves, for “we are okay as we are, but we can always improve.”

→ This is the book if you opt to explore different ways of driving yourself a little crazy.

The outline:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Dilemmas
  • Fundamentals
  • The 20 Paths
    1. Learn
    2. Read
    3. Listen
    4. Take Notes
    5. Pick Excellent Sources
    6. Pick Unassuming Sources
    7. Be Cautious Around Media
    8. Be Suspicious of Entertainment
    9. Ask Questions
    10. Ask Yourself Questions
    11. Brainstorm
    12. Make an Effort
    13. Be Diligent
    14. Develop Routines
    15. Improve Skills
    16. Use Tools
    17. Change the Point of View
    18. Cultivate a Reflex
    19. Focus on the Process
    20. Dial It Up
  • Alternatives
  • Emergency Exit
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Feedback
  • About the Author
  • About How to Work on Oneself

❧ I’m ambivalent about this piece, yet I intend to look ahead and forward to wrapping up the next “Little Book” for O’Reilly (to come out in September here we go), and to finishing two more manuscripts. Thanks to everyone who’s supporting my work—at the moment I write more compulsively than anything.

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About Me

Jens Oliver Meiert, on November 9, 2024.

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, I’m a contributor to several web standards, and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development (and engineering management), but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (Please be critical, interpret charitably, and give feedback.)