Is everything you've been taught about finding fulfillment wrong?
For decades, you've been told to follow your passion, find your purpose, chase happiness. It's bad advice, and somewhere inside you already know it. You're still searching, still waiting, still wondering why work feels hollow even when you're doing everything right. In an age when AI can do your job faster and cheaper, the old playbook isn't just outdated; it's a trap.
The people who live the most meaningful lives don't find fulfillment within themselves. They stop looking inward. Entirely.
In his most personal and provocative book yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath -- whose books from How Full Is Your Bucket? to StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Eat Move Sleep have shaped a generation -- reveals that your daily superpower isn't your title, your salary, or your "brand." It's your ability to contribute to others. And it's the one skill artificial intelligence cannot replicate.
Drawing from the clarity of a man who's lived on borrowed time since a terminal diagnosis at age fifteen, Rath combines the rigor of a researcher with the candor of a friend who refuses to let you settle. You'll discover why passion is overrated, why your childhood dreams may be holding you back, and how to build work that outlasts you.
Purpose isn't something you find. It's something you build every day, during every meeting, throughout every task, guided by one defining question: What's the point?
This book is not for the weak-hearted. It's a direct challenge to stop sleepwalking through your career and start doing the work only you can do. Whether you're 18 and getting started, or 48 and restless, What's the Point? is a roadmap for packing more life into your work, starting today.
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Tom is an author and researcher who studies how our careers can improve health and wellbeing. He has written 12 books that have sold more than 10 million copies and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists. Tom's first book, How Full Is Your Bucket?, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and led to a series of books that are used in classrooms around the world. His book StrengthsFinder 2.0 was listed as Amazon's top selling non-fiction book of all time.
Tom's other bestsellers include Strengths Based Leadership, Wellbeing, Eat Move Sleep, and Are You Fully Charged?. He has also co-authored two illustrated books for children, How Full Is Your Bucket? for Kids and The Rechargeables.
Tom started his career at Gallup, working with his grandfather (psychologist Don Clifton) to launch one of the first online personality assessments that would go on to help over 35 million people to find their strengths. He went on to lead their workplace consulting and was a Senior Scientist. Tom also served as Vice-Chair of the VHL cancer research organization and was a regular lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tom is currently the Managing Director of CareerSight, a company dedicated to helping people of all ages to see more careers and purposes they can serve in a rapidly changing world. Tom is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Ashley, and their two children.
