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How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work ReviewHow to Be Useful more or less fell off the shelf into my hand at a local bookstore the other day. The title's catchy, the cover is distinctive, and the subtitle - 'A beginners guide to not hating work' very much struck my fancy.The premise of the book is simple - Megan Hustad has read a ludicrous number of self-help business books and has put together a book of the high points of a number of the unlikely ones, with each chapter focusing on a certain kind of idea and a book or author who is iconic to it. A few of these are familiar but dated, such as Carnegie's 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' or Covey's 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People' but most of them are either much more obscure or far more unlikely to be useful. 'Sex and the Single Girl'. 'Dress For Success'. The etiquette writings of Emily Post. Even Donald Trump gets a nod.
The book walks a marvelous line between enthusiasm and criticism. Some chapters, especially dedicated to older or more obscure sources, seem to focus on uncovering lost jewels. Other chapters, usually dealing with more modern books, are all about cutting away the bulk of it for the one or two choice morsels inside. The author has no love of Stephen Covey, for example, and restricts her analysis so a single habit, but drills down into it very seriously.
I was particularly amused by one non-chapter, which can really boil down to "There are no good examples from the 70s. They're all really terrible." She takes a little time to talk about the books and ideas of the period, so the dismissal is not entirely arbitrary, and in the end I supported the decision. One word: est.
All in all it was a fast, enjoyable read. For a reader with little or no familiarity with the material under her belt, this hits a good range of notes. For the more experienced reader, there are still treasures to be found, especially in the earlier chapters about authors whose names have been mostly forgotten. At the very least it may suggest other books worth looking up.
So all in all, I enjoyed it very much, and as a practical measure of success, I'll probably be getting a copy of this for my younger brother.
One last note - the bibliography has extensive commentary, and is well worth a read.How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work Overview
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