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What to Make of a Life — And the Evidence It Can’t See
What if the problem with studying a successful life is that failure rarely leaves the same kind of record?In What to Make of a Life, Jim Collins applies the comparative method behind Good to Great to thirty-four individual lives. He studies people who faced similar turning points but responded differently, looking for patterns in what he calls cliffs, fog, encodings and simplex stepping — a framework for understanding what happens when the life you were living suddenly stops making sense.This episode explores Collins’s ideas about self-knowledge, uncertainty, meaningful work and the choices…
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