Bear Hunt: Earn Your Living By Doing What You Love

by Malcolm McClean

"I've been lucky enough to earn my living doing what I love. Bear Hunt offers a route for others to do the same." Sir Bobby Charlton. "Malcolm McClean's work is an inspiration, simple, effective and clear. For anyone who has ever wanted to change their work and their life, this book will get you on track. Malcolm McClean has 'original thinker' written on his face. If he says something, believe him, it works." Kate Marlow, Presenter, Channel Four's Reality Check. "I shudder to think what might have been had my post-graduate applications to the Post Office or the Inland Revenue been successful. I am doubly blessed that my career, being amply paid for doing what I love, wasn't really intended. How refreshing that Malcolm McClean offers a more structured path towards such rewards." Alan Green, Football Commentator, BBC 5 Live. Wouldn't it be great to never have to work again? That’s what it’s like when you’re doing something you love - it isn't work, it's fun. Bear Hunt is about turning that dream into reality. Eight simple yet startling insights provide the formula that can lead you towards your goal, starting with helping you to discover what it is that motivates and stimulates you. Bear Hunt is your path to discovering a life you’ll love. Just like the family in the children’s story, We’re Going On A Bearhunt, when you are searching for something big, beautiful and frightening you will come up against many obstacles. To achieve a life that you can love you have to stop tinkering around at the edges and have the courage to smash through them. Bear Hunt is about creating the spirit, knowledge, skills, creativity and desire to overcome all barriers to happiness and fulfilment.

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2005

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a re-read after first reading this shortly after its initial publication in 2005. It remains simple and innovative, even if some of the scenarios are now out of date and many of the entrepreneurial individuals and examples have moved on, disappeared or are no longer relevant (Ruud van Nistelrooy, the 'Millennium Dome white elephant disaster' etc). The underlying message remains unchanged but the text could do with an update. There are also a few examples where the 'luck' of the individuals (public school education, wealthy parents with connections etc) is not quite so easy to dismiss, nor where the 'activities' engaged in for the dreams to be realised (eg 'borrowing' some scaffolding seemed remarkably like theft to me not a convenient short-cut) can be so casually set out as legitimate if all in the greater cause. There is an integrity which goes beyond 'being true to oneself' and where responsibility to live honourably and to be held to the promises and commitments you have made is not something that can be thrown aside quite as simply as this book suggests. For those however who are looking at the 'there has to be more to life than this' question then this book is helpful - but it only goes so far, there is much, much more to life than work and this book only just brushes the surface of that. The author can't really get away from the happiness = money myth and I was left feeling that I would probably have been just as inspired by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury's 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' - "we can't go under it, we can't go over it, we'll have to go through it".

[Winnie Lim · Rating 5 out of 5]

"you are what you believe"