Summary of Martha Beck's Finding Your Own North Star

Excerpt From Summary of Martha Beck's Finding Your Own North Star



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When we try to please other people, we often end up pleasing no one. It is important to remember and acknowledge our own wants and needs.



#2



The author met a man named Melvin, who was a forty-five-year veteran of the same job and had no aspirations of changing careers. He was a living example of the negative effects of suppressing your essential self.