This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose audiobook runs 7.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Shane Jackson (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 7.6 hours, it runs longer than 80% of the 26,666 Self-Development audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Self-Development shelf
3,247 Self-Development audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose is an audiobook by Shane Jackson: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Shane Jackson, released April 1, 2025, on the Self-Development shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Shane Jackson
- Released
- April 1, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9798886453683
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose audiobook?
This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.
Is the This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose?
This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose is narrated by Shane Jackson.