Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
What Color is Your Parachute?
Richard Nelson Bolles · 2006
75/100
👍 Worth It
The Flower Exercise and Bolles's core self-assessment framework remain some of the most thoughtful tools ever written for career change, and the integration of spiritual calling and vocational purpose is genuinely rare in this category. The catch is the edition: the 2006 version's internet guidance is now two decades stale, and the annual-revision model exists precisely so readers get current material. If you can access a recent edition, this is a strong buy — the 2006 printing specifically, less so.
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safety96
substance82
craft78
originality80
accuracy60
hype75
age-fit78
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict75
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