The Monk and the Riddle forgotten review

Three months ago I finished my last book. It's ashaming, I know, but last semester was tough, and since then I've been reading two books at the same time. Once I finished it I shared my highlights here. There I show the soul of the book.

It's a book with an interesting style, it's not literature but it's not management style either, but it talks about how important it is to have the passion as driver for life. He creates a model or a style of life living, he calls it "Deferred Life Plan". All that is written within a nice context and life experience, the structure of the book is quite particular and you never know what really comes next.

The Deferred Life Plan is that life plan in which you think as work as a burden you've gotta carry before you retire and then you can execute those wishes you always had (run a hostel in the beach, be a football coach, live in the mountains, ...). He says that this should not be the way we plan our lifes, because in this type of plan, it is intrinsic that your job and your plans after retirement are not aligned, thus you passion and your job aren't either.

He suggests to be honest with each other and find this passion that drive us and make our life upon it, make it our job. He doesn't tell how, obviously, for that you better find what your passion is first.

Second important conclusion from the book is that it is necessary to accept and embrace failure, falilure makes us really learn and know where the boundary is, it helps us to find ourselves, he relates this within the personal aspect and the entrepreneurial aspect in the context of the Silicon Valley Economy and the Venture Capital that make it so special, Upon him, the economy in the silicon valley is completely based on failure, they embrace it in the sense that once it is accepted the fear to act will dilute and sooner than latter success will come, and will come not but chance but full of lessons.

I'd suggest the book to who ever is interested on have and startup or to hear a nice speech from a successful and honest entrepreneur.
His lesson of embracing the failure, came later as well reading a document of Alessi, the leading Italian design company, here is the article where he nicely explains the importance of failure.