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Life on Purpose
- How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness.
Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn't matter how much wind is in your sails if you're not steering toward a harbor - an ultimate purpose in your life.
While the greatest philosophers have pondered purpose for centuries, today it has been shown to have a concrete impact on our health. Recent studies into Alzheimer's, heart disease, stroke, depression, functional brain imaging, and measurement of DNA repair are shedding new light on how and why purpose benefits our lives.
Going beyond the fads, opinions, and false hopes of "expert" self-help books, Life on Purpose explores the incredible connection between purposeful living and the latest scientific evidence on quality of life and longevity. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and neuroscience as well as his experience in public health research, Dr. Vic Strecher reveals the elements necessary for a purposeful life and how to acquire them and outlines an elegant strategy for improving energy, willpower, and long-term happiness and well-being. He integrates these core themes into his own personal story - a tragedy that led him to reconsider his own life - and how a deeper understanding of purposeful living helped him not only to survive but to thrive.
Illuminating, accessible, and authentically grounded in real people's experiences, Life on Purpose is essential for everyone seeking lasting improvement in their lives.
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- Radiant Dark
- 11-05-16
A truly life-changing book
What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?
This is a phenomenal book about why you should live your life on purpose, and how to begin finding what your purpose is in the first place. Citing studies on how purpose-driven people do better overall in life ( and are happier), R.C. Bray illustrates why we shouldn't go through life in a daze, especially when times are tough. The story of his daughter and her health condition was heart-breaking and inspiring at the same time; he is truly a role model for anyone who has lost a loved one and feels disconnected from life and going about things aimlessly. I loved this book so much I started buying it for friends. It also has a free app available for your phone which helps you track if you're staying on purpose each day.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- R McLeod
- 10-04-16
Not what I expected
Had some good tips but, a lot of this book is devoted to healthy living and not as much as I would have liked on the spiritual side. I don't feel I got a lot out of this book that I didn't already know.
3 people found this helpful
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- VC
- 09-12-18
Meh... lackluster narrator
Narrator was pretty monotone and didn’t add any character to the authors words. Was hard to get into anything he was trying to say because he was kind of, well, boring and lacked any energy in his voice!
2 people found this helpful
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- Angela Gapp
- 10-26-21
Great story
Great story worlds and facts awesome. They could of picked a better narrator. Better book to read.
1 person found this helpful
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- Martin
- 07-14-22
Wonderful book
This book will hold a special place in my library for all of my life and it will be returned to, often.
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- TheBCompany
- 04-26-22
Life changing info!
The information in this book is very condensed, both moving and illustrated with humor. I found the narrator's speech a bit slow, so I increased it to 1.5x, which made it go very quickly.
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- Kristin
- 04-17-18
Will read this many times, I'm sure
My grand daughter recommend this book to me. The author is her college professor. I loved the book and understand why she loves his class.
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- Bennie
- 08-22-17
Great booster shot to living a purpose-driven life
Whether you are coming at this with purpose in hand or searching, this book helps in sharpening the saw (using another books metaphor).
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- Big Chris
- 06-05-16
Short Of What I Expected
Given the title and description I expected this to be an examination of how to discover and realise one's personal purpose. And the book starts off well. The positioning and preamble gives a good enough foundation.
But then the substance of "what is your purpose" is rushed over in a very few sentences: think about your goals; now, write down you're purpose! The headstone (death bed) exercise is through in for good measure but fails to build on anything written decades, our even centuries, ago.
The rest of the book is then nothing to do with (re)defining your purpose. It is a rehash of common good habits which the author tries to link to the title: eat well, exercise, sleep, make personal time, chill.
Very disappointing.
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- LT
- 09-23-22
Insightfu & inspirational
Such a beautiful and balanced approach to life. Very inspirational, thank you for writing it.
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- SAMUEL. A
- 06-20-21
Disappointing
I had high hopes and expectation for this book but I have been disappointed by the inability of the author to do justice to the title. The book started off well and gave a very brief framework for discovering life purpose but did not build on this. The mid and later part of the book focused on lifestyle topics: exercise, diet etc. which are remotely related to the title of the book.
I guess my search for the ultimate book on “Purpose” continues.
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- Andrew
- 06-13-16
Highly recommended
I'm not one to review things (or write down life goals and purpose for that matter!) but I'll make an exception here- very inspiring and I can't recommend it enough. I feel that over time this may (and should) become the new 'man's search for meaning'- the earlier in life you can read these two books, the better.
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- RossRoss
- 05-19-16
sensational
R C Bray is a gifted orator. couple this gift with a story and message so powerful that it brought me to tears. read this book and then read it again. i challenge you not to be ever more inspired after.
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- Lisa
- 06-29-17
Easy listen but nothing groundbreaking
I found this easy enough to listen to, all the advice is good and valid, but to me it was basically a summary of a whole lot of fairly generic good advice.
Didn't find anything particularly original or profound or new, which was disappointing.
For example - there's a whole chapter on diet, and while it is - again - good advice - it's nothing you wouldn't find in any "good health" magazine. And didn't even come across as particularly relevant to having a Life Purpose.
There are a few anecdotal stories about specific people with a purpose, but nothing particularly powerful.
Not a bad book at all, but don't read it expecting to find any great secrets or profound wisdom about Life Purpose, just some general good advice.
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- Zacki H.
- 09-25-16
Great content, readers voice was annoying
Enjoyed this book and it's teachings
The readers delivery and voice really threw me off and made it uncomfortable to listen at times
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- Paul Pichugin
- 09-24-16
Great start but couldn't finish it
Really struggled to finish it, in the end I turned it off. The first few chapters were great and compelling, deeply touching personal story behind "why" this book. Then just over half-way through it turns into a book about transcendental meditation, yoga and I switched it off when the words "hive mind" were mentioned. Not at all the book described in the title or description.
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- Marvgen
- 08-31-16
Soul piercing!
Words in this book touch you deep, change will eminent be after reading it. At times you feel that knot in the neck as the agony of acceptance towards life viscitudes unfold. Life as a purpose is a must and here be a good starting point. Read it you will benefit from it. Marvin
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- Bill Ruys
- 01-13-19
Really struggled with narrator's delivery
The gist of this book is that having a self transcending purpose in life is the key to happiness. It suggests that diet, meditation exercise, etc, are key parts of the puzzle. some bits of the message resonated with me, but at other times, I felt I was being preached to.
I found the narrator's "in a world..." vocal style tiresome and annoying, which made getting through the book a bit of a chore. Maybe an interesting choice for a movie trailer or a 30 second commercial, but not really suited to an audio book.
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- Dale
- 09-13-16
best book I've ever read
from the opening chapter I was hooked. I've never felt so much emotion from a book before. the content is a must read. for everyone in every wall of life. im so happy I found this book.
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- Nadia
- 09-27-20
Highly recommended
Your life will change for the better, after you find your purpose.
I’m forever grateful to Victor J. Strecher for writing this book. Now more than ever we need people live their lives on purpose.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-17-17
A useful guide
I enjoyed the book as the story provides a template to use to create a purpose and the narrator seemed to be passionate about the subject matter. Well worth the read.
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