Living Without a Goal: Finding the Freedom to Live a Creative Innovative and Fulfilled Life

Ogilvy, James

ISBN 10: 0385417993 / ISBN 13: 9780385417990

Published by Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living Without a Goal: Finding the Freedom to Live a Creative Innovative and Fulfilled Life
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385417993
• ISBN 13: 9780385417990
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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Synopsis

In what may be the most radical business book ever published, philosopher Jay Ogilvy shows that living without a goal is the only way to accomplish anything. In the 1980s we ran our lives with all the direction and confidence filofaxes and to-do lists could provide. Always knowing exactly where we were headed, we climbed toward the goals corporate America held out in front of us like so many carrots: higher salaries, better titles, more impressive offices. But after a decade of climbing, the air is getting thin. We crave the chance to create, to express ourselves, and to make a difference, not just a living. It is time, says businessman/philosopher James Ogilvy, to tear up the to-do lists and grant ourselves the freedom to enjoy what E. M. Forster calls "the lights and shades that exist in the greyest conversation." Ogilvy shows that richness and color and flavor flood back into our lives once we set aside the goals that hold us captive. He explores how philosophers (from Plato to Nietzsche), lovers, ideologues, and executives have at one time or another lived without goals. What emerges from his argument is a new look at how to achieve personal creativity and freedom by fashioning one's day to-day life, not as a larger goal-producing machine, but as a personal work of art.

About the Author

James Ogilvy is vice president and cofounder of Global Business Network in Emeryville, California. He taught philosophy at Yale University, Williams College, and the University of Texas, Austin.