What to Make of a Life
by Jim Collins
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on On Purpose with Jay Shetty.
The general take
Tim Ferriss is enthusiastic about Jim Collins' new book "What to Make of a Life," which profiles about 30 people and shows that many accomplished their most significant work later in life, in their 50s, 60s, and 70s. He presents it as offering "incredible examples of success" that challenge conventional thinking about when peak achievement happens.
About
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ BY THE AUTHOR Jim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing—and reconstructing—a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face repeatedly in our lives. What to make of a life? It is a question we all wrestle with more than once: How do we find our way in the world? How do we make it past the cliffs, significant events that can radically change a life? How do we keep the inner fire burning bright, long and late? Inspired by relentless curiosity, Jim Collins devoted a decade to studying these questions and to minutely analyzing those moments when life flips from clarity to confusion and casts us into a befuddling fog. His exploration follows various lives side-by-side, paired together at cliffs, and analyzes the different choices made and divergent paths taken.
Who said what
Tim Ferriss👍 Recommends
…recommending new jim collins book profiling late-life achievement and purpose
“Jim Collins actually has a new book. I don't know if it's out yet, but What to Make of a Life profiles something like 30 people and these are incredible examples of success and a lot of them did their most important work in their 50s, 60s, and 70s.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty — Tim Ferriss: Feeling Stuck Right Now? (Use THIS 10-Minute Exercise to Stop Overthinking and Take Action)at 36:07
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