Second Act
What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life
$48.63
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2024
Summary
Henry Oliver is a rare talent: smart, funny and insightful. SECOND ACT showcases his wide reading, deep understanding and playful prose style. Read this book to discover why it’s never too late for a second act in your own life.
- Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women
Have you ever dreamed that you might be far more successful than you are today? Our society tells us over and over that if we’re going to achieve anything, we’d better do it while we…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399813310 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399813315 |
| Author: | Henry Oliver |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray One |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 506g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 223mm x 143mm |
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Critics Review
When we feel defined by the past we can struggle to see a different future. With its mix of compelling stories and persuasive evidence, Second Act will make you realise that, far from being done, you haven’t even got started yet. – Ian Leslie, author of Born Liars and Curious
Success and failure are often seen as all too reliant on time. Work for long enough and you’ll get there, or be precocious early on and you’ll do great. This is not just untrue, it maligns the human condition. Henry’s book is a brilliant ode to the infinite variety of human experience. Using stories from those who have done this before, he shows past is not prologue, future is in fact unwritten, and achieving excellence is not age dependent! – Rohit Krishnan, investor
Henry Oliver is a rare talent: smart, funny and insightful. SECOND ACT showcases his wide reading, deep understanding and playful prose style. Read this book to discover why it’s never too late for a second act in your own life. – Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women
This fascinating well-researched book sparks insights into how talent blooms across all ages and disciplines drawing on lives across politics, culture, business and arts. So absorbed, I read it a single sitting. – Ben Yeoh, investor and host of Ben Yeoh Chats
About The Author
Henry Oliver
Henry Oliver studied English at the University of Oxford, Law at BPP College, and Biography at the University of Buckingham. After a period as a Parliamentary researcher, he spent a decade as a global brand researcher and consultant in talent attraction. He consulted widely with all kinds of organisations, from tech start-ups and specialist auditors to FTSE 100 retailers and Fortune 500 banks. His clients were senior executives in HR, talent attraction, and marketing.
In 2022 he was awarded an Emergent Ventures grant by the prominent economist and thinker Tyler Cowen to fund a book about late bloomers and talent. His blog, ‘The Common Reader’, has five thousand subscribers and was named by Helen Lewis as one of her favourite Substacks.
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