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Title: Between need and want. Find your path and follow it
Author: El Luna
Year: 2015
Genre: Self-improvement, Foreign applied and popular science literature, Personal growth, Foreign psychology

About the book “Between need and want. Find your path and follow it." El Luna

The book "Between Need and Want" by writer and designer El Luna is the least like a textbook on motivation. In appearance, it rather resembles a colorful notebook "with tips" - one of those that are positioned as a help for creative people. Only in her case, the pages that the reader has to fill with bright colors are the pages of his own life.

“Between need and want. Find Your Way and Follow It is a book about finding your true calling. Someone chooses his own path spontaneously or under the influence of the environment, and then for years - or throughout his life - is afraid to leave it. For some reason, it is considered that this is a mature position. Adults put up with an unsuccessful (or imposed) choice, stoically enduring the discomfort that it brings them. El Luna shows that everything is just the opposite: living on the principle of "must" is a childish attitude. The fact that a person is ready to endure boredom and dissatisfaction with everyday life when it comes to his future does not mean that he knows how to take responsibility. This suggests that he knows how to take on a burden. Different things, right?

The writer will not scold those who, in their 20s and 30s, still have not parted with the complex of an excellent student. Her goal is to delight, not disappoint. Captivate the reader with his own perspectives. And this book has no age limits: special attention is paid to people who made the same choice - between “necessary” and “want” - at an age when, according to society, it is time to lead a sedate life of a person who has devoted himself to grandchildren and memories. What about an aspiring 90-year-old designer who has tripled a job at IDEO in Boston? Writing debut at 64? Flying into space after 70? These are not mythical examples from literature on motivation, but real stories that El Luna introduces readers to.

Many publications dubbed her book a manifesto, but the author herself suggests looking at it differently - as a guide to different options for the future. Among them there are no bad and good, but there are yours and not yours. In this sense, the book is more than the traditional carrot and stick for creatives and doubters, because it gives the reader more than just the right to create and act. She lets him live his own life.

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Pages: 176

The year of publishing: 2017

Language: Russian

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We are different. Thirty year old women. Twenty year old men. Students. "Poor". Teachers. Programmers. Musicians pretending to be lawyers. Poets who love to drive the bus. People who understand that work has led to a dead end, and people who are grateful to fate that there is at least some work.

We are different. But we share a common pain. We don't really use our abilities.

Once Elle Luna, an artist and designer, wrote about this essay - "Between need and want." How to find your way and understand yourself. A couple of weeks later, 5 million people shared this text. “This text changed my life,” commented one woman. “Drop everything you are doing right now and read this article,” wrote another. And then there was a book. Beautiful. Inspirational. that you want to share.

Today we share what caught our attention. So drop everything. And read.

Job, career or vocation?

Elle was working on a startup when she felt like she had come to a crossroads. There was a lot of work, but she devoted all her free time to drawing. Both worlds were equally interesting to her, but which one to choose?

One day, Elle saw the performance of Stefan Sagmeister, a designer from New York, at the world famous show, in which he showed the difference between work, career and vocation.

El thought: what happened in her life? She realized that she wanted to have a job that was both a career and a calling. After launching a startup, she wrote a letter of resignation and devoted herself entirely to painting.

What is more in your life? Jobs, careers or vocations?

Writer Thomas Eliot worked in a bank. Kurt Vonnegut sold cars. One of the greatest composers of our time, Philip Glass, began to earn money on his vocation only at the age of 41. Premieres of his works were held at the Metropolitan Opera, and he continued to work as a plumber.

Any work deserves respect. If you only work to pay the bills, that's fine. And just because you want to find your calling doesn't mean you have to quit your job. There is no contradiction here.

But it is important to think: what are you doing now?

I need and I want

“There are two ways in life: “need” and “want”. We come to this crossroads again and again. And every day we choose,” writes El in his book.

“Necessary” is the ideas of other people (mainly relatives - parents, family) about how we should live. These are their expectations about our actions, thoughts and life in general. All this destroys our own "I", forcing us as we would like. By choosing the “must” path, we choose life for the sake of others, a life that is predictable and without unnecessary worries.

What is "I want"?

“I want” is what we are without masks and imposed attitudes. This is all that we feel deep down, what we love and what we believe. These are all our true desires, dreams, hobbies. “I want” allows us to reveal our potential, to strive for our own ideals.

It is harder to follow the “I want” path, because it is not clear what awaits us on this journey. There are no guarantees, only daily hard work and constant overcoming of oneself. But at the same time, choosing “I want” means living a rich and conscious life. To be here and now every second. This is a life full of delight and joy.

Lawyer John Grisham woke up every day at 5 am and sat down to write stories about terrible crimes before work. He followed the "want" for years and did not give up, receiving refusals to publish his book. In the end, he received a positive response, and today his name is known in every home.

Which path are you on? "I need" or "I want"?

Where does "should" come from?

It would seem that doing what we want is so easy, but why don't we do it every day?

We grow up in an environment where everyone around us is constantly told what to do. We are taught what to do and what not to do. We inherit the beliefs and worldview of loved ones. But sometimes we follow someone else's "must" path for much longer than planned. We suddenly become aware of ourselves as adults, not living the way we would like.

In order to get out of the captivity of “necessary”, we first need to realize that we are in it. Take a piece of paper and make a list of sentences starting with "I need to...", "I should...", "I've always needed to...", "I never need to...". Without hesitation, write everything that sounds in your head.

Now ask each item on your list three questions:

Without regrets, eliminate everything that does not suit you. Life is too short to waste time on things you don't want to do.

How to follow the path of "want"?

What if we don't know what we like and what we want? Play with dreams.

Every time a desire (or) appears in your head, write it down on a sticky note and stick it anywhere. Your desires can be strange, grandiose, useful or stupid. The main thing is to catch them and write them down. This way you will hear what your heart wants more often. What will sound more often and louder is yourself.

Two obituaries

Imagine that you have grown old, died and are written about in the newspaper. What will be written there if your life goes the way it goes? Write down everything you think of. Do you like it?

Now write the kind of obituary you would like for yourself. What would your life be like? Who would you be? A caring mother, a country hero, a great inventor, or all together? Don't be shy in your dreams.

Compare these two obituaries and think about what you need to change in your life for the second one to become a reality.

How to start?

Lao Tzu said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." Once you realize what you really want, start taking action slowly. You do not need to immediately quit your job and spend all your time, for example, writing. This is unreasonable, because you need to live on something and eat something. Moreover, such an approach will only lead you into a stupor. Just every day. Finding 10-15 minutes a day for yourself is not difficult.

Listen to your heart and do whatever it tells you to. Even if it seems absurd or pointless.

Your life belongs to you. But only if you yourself are at the helm. Walk the “want” path every day. Ten minutes can always be found. Ten minutes while the kettle boils - go ahead! Ten minutes in traffic - go ahead!

What will you choose? Necessary? Want?

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His own path inspired the author to write a manifesto about the difference between “need” and “want”, which was shared by 5 million Twitter users and read by hundreds of thousands of people. “I wanted to send it to all my employees,” wrote one executive who read the article, “but realized that a third of them would leave if they read it. But you know what? If they don't want to work here, they need to quit - that's why I sent out this article."

Now Elle's ideas about the difference between "need" and "want" are presented in this inspiring bright book, which will be useful for both the student and the artist, and any person who is looking for his calling and wants to change his life for the better.

From the author

These pages are written in support of your inner voice that says that you can give this world something special. They are designed to remind you that although you do not know where this road will lead, many people have already walked along it. They let you forget everything necessary do to remember what you want to do.

Who is this book for?

For anyone who wants to change their career and life, find their true calling and the courage to follow it.