The Invisible List
Start living the life you really want
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
"A blueprint for joyfully rewriting your story."
Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit
We all have an "invisible list" of things we say we'll do when we finally have the time: learn the guitar, take up tennis, write a book, get our French from rusty to passable. But life always gets in the way.
In this book, entrepreneur and educator Ravi Gupta presents a bold, inspiring approach to resurrecting your passions, no matter how limited your time or money.
After realising that he had stopped doing anything for the sheer love of it, Gupta decided to dedicate one full year to becoming competent in one of his long-deferred hobbies. No quitting allowed. It soon became an annual pursuit that has included taking on screenwriting, surfing, and powerlifting.
Combining the inspiration of The Happiness Project with the practical strategies of Atomic Habits, this book shows you how to reclaim time, rediscover joy and build habits that turn hidden dreams into real accomplishments. Part memoir, part guidebook, The Invisible List illustrates how to create a life worth living.
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Gupta, cofounder of the media company The Branch, debuts with an energetic guide to finding fulfillment by taking one's hobbies seriously. After burning out on a career that included Yale Law School, work on the 2008 Obama campaign, founding charter schools, and launching the political training organization Arena, Gupta realized success had left him disconnected from things he'd once wanted to learn for their own sake. Drawing from his subsequent attempt to throw himself into his passions, he guides readers through writing down a list of postponed dreams, then choosing a single skill and committing to it for a year with a concrete goal. The strongest chapters ground the advice in Gupta's own experiments, including powerlifting to rebuild physical confidence, and surfing to "feel like a kid again." He lucidly outlines how to break down big ambitions into manageable steps without minimizing the discomfort, money, time, and embarrassment of being a beginner, and his insistence that joy and play are equally important in adulthood lands with force. Readers waiting for "someday" will be inspired to finally start pursuing their dreams.
