This is your chance to reflect on what you will take away from Chapter 4: Commitment Phobia and to learn from or contribute to other book club members’ take-aways. You can also pose questions here about the chapter or what you are discovering about yourself.
The exercises we completed in Chapter 4: Commitment Phobia included
- Which Mistaken Assumptions Are Yours?
- The Career Tryout
- Try a LTTL
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I’m feeling overwhelmed with family operations and struggling to get to a project. Perhaps I’m suffering from a mistaken assumption.
This is my second time reading “Refuse to Choose” and rereading this chapter has helped me see that I can use something like the LTTL System to quickly pick up skills that will help me navigate my “golden years” after retirement. As someone who has always thought in terms of taking a job with a commitment to stay for the long run, this is a change for me.
Great reflections Abby!
My biggest takeaways from chapter 4:
Avoiding commitment is not satisfying, but a commitment does not have to be a lifelong enterprise. I think there is also such thing as “commitment in the moment” which for me looks like “hyper-focus” or “mono-tropism” and brings me great joy. Even if I’m involved in many projects, I find it most fun to really focus on the one I’m doing at the time.