Just the Good Stuff

No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)

De: Jim VandeHei

Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life—no matter where you start out—from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico.

Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot.

Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism.

VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff, his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other “good stuff,” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success.

Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach.

©2024 Jim VandeHei (P)2024 Random House Audio

succinct

great insights with brief expansion that makes the point. excellent read at a slow and studied pace

No nonsense Leadership wisdom

A refreshing crash course on leadership for the modern times. The candid, authentic and no nonsense delivery of practical wisdom in an easy to follow format are a good example of what leaders need to become better at helping people today.

Great read (well, listen)!

I enjoyed this way more than I expected. It was filled with great nuggets about leadership, building a culture and taking care of yourself. Highly recommend.

Pithy Life Advice

Heard the author on a podcast and decided to give the book a try. Glad I did. Wonderful life lessons and advice told in an engaging manner. Give it a try.

Great book

Lots of honest self assessments and showing how to grow. Jim takes the time to analyze his career growth step-by-step with some nice insights to help those to experience some of his achievements, a roadmap on how to continue to improve.

Workaholic 101

If your desire is to become a workaholic and have nothing matter to you more than work and being in charge of an organization, then this book is for you. The title should had stopped at Secrets to Success and ended there. There is nothing is this book about the Good Stuff.