The one that makes you reassess your career

“Nine years ago, two years into my role as an investment analyst at a large asset manager, I read The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro while holidaying in the Aeolian Islands,” says Eshita Kabra-Davies founder and CEO of fashion rental platform By Rotation. “The story follows the life and reflections of Stevens, a ‘dignified’ and proud butler who serves his master at great personal cost. While it may not be a self-help book in the traditional sense, it left me questioning my purpose in life professionally while also reminding me to seize the day in my personal life so I wouldn’t have any regrets for the remains of my days. It set the tone for the rest of my career, where I knew my life calling wasn’t to follow the linear trajectory of going from investment analyst to portfolio manager. Both the book and the Academy award-winning film (with Antony Hopkins and Hugh Grant) are fantastic and left me in tears, but do not skip the book – it is a must.”

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