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Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person
"A perceptive guide."
--"Publishers Weekly"
This book builds on Elaine Aron's groundbreaking bestseller"The Highly Sensitive Person" to offer you proven strategies that help you make your extreme sensitivity an asset in the workplace. You will get guidance on stress management, boundary setting, dealing with abusive coworkers, and more. And you
...morePaperback, 256 pages
Published
May 1st 2005
by McGraw-Hill
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Other reviewers on Amazon said that this book was short on solutions, that is, how to find the particular work that suits a highly sensitive person. I would agree with this--there was no methodology offered for figuring this out for yourself. However, I found the framework of her ideas very useful. I found myself completely described, from the need for an emotionally supportive workplace, the need for stimulation but not too much. That every few years, I lose interest in what I am doing and ...more
This book was disappointing. I kind of liked the section about how to state your needs as a strength rather than a weakness, but other than that I didn't get much out of it. The writing was not very good. The author's framework (Drudgery, Craft, and Calling) was not useful for me, and I found it to be very one-dimensional. Apparently the One True Way for highly sensitive people is to follow your "calling" and be self-employed. Anything else just won't be good enough for you. How ...more
I'm a highly sensitive person and this book was great at helping to explain things about myself. A great resource for those who work with highly sensitive persons and being able to understand them better. Here's a website that lists the attributes of those who are highly sensitive - http://www.sensitiveperson.com/attribts....
Definitely a great read for those of us who get bored quickly with our jobs, have a hard time with politics in the office, and need a good bit of intellectual challenge. The author gives some practical advice to readers who find themselves in this category to help them to determine if the current job they are in is drudgery to them...and if it is...no amount of trying to make it work will work. Many HSP will change jobs and even careers every 2-4 or 5ish years. Yes, that can be challenging and f...more
This book can be helpful for people who may not know how to identify a good job, an okay job, and a terrible one. This can be particularly hard when its your job. Too much time is spent on fanciful exposition of what a good job 'feels' like and it tries too hard to create a special vocabulary around the process of reflecting about yourself in work. But it can be really beneficial for people who feel things deeply make sense of why they might feel drained at their job, and how to improve that ...more
From the back cover:
If you feel drained and debilitated at work, or your work doesn't fulfill your creativity, you may be among the 20 percent of the population who are overwhelmed by job pressures. The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is often intelligent, imaginative, empathetic, and hyper-aware of surroundings. This sensitivity is part of being passionate about work. But it can also make being in the work force a painful trial.
Based on cutting-edge research and extensive interv...more
If you feel drained and debilitated at work, or your work doesn't fulfill your creativity, you may be among the 20 percent of the population who are overwhelmed by job pressures. The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is often intelligent, imaginative, empathetic, and hyper-aware of surroundings. This sensitivity is part of being passionate about work. But it can also make being in the work force a painful trial.
Based on cutting-edge research and extensive interv...more
Still didn't make work work....
Better than I expected; I suspect every conjure should read this book, to understand certain of their clients better -- and possibly themsleves, too.
So great- this book is an instruction manual for sensitive people who tend to get caught up in their work. How to stay grounded.
Great book for anyone who can't seem to feel settled or content with any job... which is certainly me!
It did provide some helpful suggestions and practices that I can use. But I'd still like to find a good resource for jobs that an HSP like me would most enjoy and be comfortable with.
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