Pick Your Gummy Bear
Lessons from My Biggest Life Choices
by Johan Depraetere
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Pub Date 19 Mar 2026 | Archive Date 15 Oct 2026
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Description
Through twelve vivid, personal and honest stories, Johan shows how both subtle whispers and bold leaps pushed him beyond comfort and into a fuller, unbounded life - the thrill of stepping past the familiar. This is an invitation to recognise the inflection points in your own journey: the moments when comfort pulls one way and curiosity beckons another.
Pick Your Gummy Bear is your companion for those crossroads in life, when you pause and ask: Which gummy bear will I choose?
Advance Praise
Powerful, deeply personal and ultimately transferable - a great tool for us to reflect on our careers and lives, and how we can future proof success and fulfilment.
Sharath Jeevan OBE, Author of ‘Intrinsic’ and ‘Inflection’, Founder of the Generational Success Lab
Pick Your Gummy Bear is a joyful and honest reflection on the pivotal choices that shape our lives. Johan Depraetere’s ‘gummy bear moments’ is a brilliant way to frame the courage it takes to seek purpose and dare to grow. This is a powerful read for anyone ready to step off the expected path and discover what lies beyond the familiar.
Barbara Martin Coppola, Former CEO of Decathlon, Board Director INSEAD
Pick Your Gummy Bear is a wonderful read, written warmly and tenderly; it’s an incredibly open and honest story, an intimate reflection on life and inevitably, very thought-provoking. It speaks strongly to Johan’s reflective, spiritual side, combined with an unusual willingness to take risks and his extraordinary strength in coming to terms with his losses over the last five years.
Patrick Wall, Founder and CEO of Metapack, co-founder of Centre for Education Systems
A powerful way of understanding one’s life, is to identify crucial moments of choice. Choices that open doors to new and unforeseen opportunities in work and personal life. By sharing his remarkable personal journey of choices, Johan Depraetere inspires readers to deepen exploring their own story of life-shaping choices.
Professor Erik van de Loo, psychoanalyst, INSEAD
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781918191936 |
| PRICE | 14.99 |
| PAGES | 244 |