Cover of What to Make of a Life

What to Make of a Life

Jim Collins

Release date

April 7, 2026

After a decade of studying the long arc of remarkable lives, bestselling author Jim Collins tackles the questions most of us quietly wrestle with: How do we find our way? How do we recover when life is flipped upside down? And how do we keep building momentum, decade after decade?

The book highlights:

  • Life at the Cliffs: Collins examines pivotal fracture points, the moments when clarity turns to fog, by pairing real lives side by side and studying the very different choices people make when everything changes.
  • Being Encoded for Your Work: The book explores what it takes to discover a deeply fulfilling role you are naturally built for, and how to find a second one if the first comes to an end.
  • Momentum Across a Lifetime: Collins makes a compelling case that our most creative and energetic years need not peak early but can be sustained and renewed across an entire life.
  • Collins’s Own Story: For the first time, Collins shares his personal journey and how this decade-long project transformed him in ways he did not expect.

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