Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

Week 22: Review & Reflection — The Life You Want to Live

Review your notes, journal entries, and underlined passages from Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist.

You have spent weeks sitting with Niequist's story and your own — now it's time to look back across the whole journey and ask what has actually changed, and what still needs to.

Discussion Questions

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1.Looking back across the whole book, which chapter or section hit you hardest? What was it about that particular content that cut through? Did it confirm something you already knew, or did it disturb something you hadn't examined?

2.At the beginning of this study, you may have written down what you hoped the book would change or disturb in you. Go back to that now. Has it? What shifted — in your thinking, your habits, your relationships, your sense of self?

3.Niequist's central argument is that presence is better than performance, and that the slower, more particular life is the richer one. Do you believe that now more than you did at the start? Where are you still resistant to it, and why?

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