Book Review: Becoming the Next Great Generation

Title: Becoming the Next Great Generation

Author: Jonathan Catherman

Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company

Publication Date: March 17, 2020

Becoming the Next Great Generation: Taking Our Place as Confident and Capable Adults is a practical and helpful book written by Jonathan Catherman. 

This book is focused on providing teens (and young people) with tools and information to become confident and capable adults in the 21st century, especially since the generation gap grows wider with less shared experiences.

The author shares examples and practical applications for younger ages as they grow into adulthood, along with how to bridge the generation gap, transform talent into strengths, adjust into leadership roles, and to live with purpose. While learning from previous generations while incorporating values, young people will make a difference as they unite to become the next generation.

There are four main sections, which are titled as Challenge 1: Build Bridges, Challenge 2: Practice Stewardship Before Leadership, Challenge 3: Transform Raw Talents into Valued Strengths, and Challenge 4: Live with Purpose. Those sections are divided and include seventeen chapters in total. Also, there are additional sections titled as Introduction, Personal Message to Readers, and Conclusion.

According to the page 15, the author shared, "This book is about coming alongside and guiding you in discovering and becoming all you were created to be." And then Catherman continued on page 20, "By shining a light on ways of rethinking the following four challenges, I look to lift you all up in a way that you can successfully and effectively pick up, make course corrections, and move onward and upward from where my generation left off. Basically, may our ceiling by your floor as you become the Next Great Generation.

Guiding the Next Great Generation is a helpful resource geared toward young people, particularly teens.

Also, there's a companion book titled as Guiding the Next Great Generation: Rethinking How Teens Become Confident and Capable Adults that's geared towards adults. This book is reviewed in another blog post

Note: I received this book from Revell Reads, which is a program designed for bloggers to write book reviews in exchange for books, yet the opinions expressed in this review are my own.