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What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Po Bronson
The bestselling author of "Bombardiers" and "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest" traveled the world in search of people who had found meaningful answers to one of life's greatest questions: What should I do with my life?"
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*What should I do with my life?*
It's a question many of us have pondered with frequency. Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book--an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves.
Bronson traveled the country in search of individuals who have struggled to find their calling, their true nature--people who made mistakes before getting it right. He encountered people of all ages and all professions--a total of fifty-five fascinating individuals trying to answer questions such as: Is a career supposed to feel like a destiny? How do I tell the difference between a curiosity and a passion? Should I make money first, to fund my dream? If I have a child, will my frustration over my work go away? Should I accept my lot, make peace with my ambition, and stop stressing out? Why do I feel guilty for thinking about this?
From their efforts to answer these questions, the universal truths in this book emerge. Each story in these pages informs the next, and the result is a journey that unfolds with cumulative power. Reading this book is like listening in on an intimate conversation among people you care about and admire. Even if you know what you should do with your life, you will find wisdom and guidance in these stories of people who found meaningful answers by daring to be honest with themselves.
Among them:
- the Pittsburgh lawyer who decided to become a trucker so he could savor the moment and be closer to his son.
- the toner-cartridge queen of Chicago, who realized that her relationships with men kept sabotaging her career choices.-the Cuban immigrant who overcame the strong dis-approval of her parents and quit her high-paying job to pursue social-service work in Miami.
- the chemistry professor who realized, quite late in life, that he would rather practice law.
- the mother torn between an Olympic career and her adolescent daughter.
- the seventeen-year-old boy who received a letter from the Dalai Lama and was called to a life of spiritual leadership.
- the creator of St. Elmo's Fire, who wasn't sure he could quit his successful Hollywood life for the deeper artistic life he had always wanted to pursue.
- the author himself. Po Bronson has worked as a bus-boy, cook, janitor, sports-medicine intern, bus-lift assembly-line technician, aerobics instructor, litigation consultant, greeting-card designer, bond salesman, political-newsletter editor, high school teacher, and book publisher. Since then, he has written three books: *Bombardiers*, *The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest*, and *The Nudist on the Late Shift*. But none of those experiences compared to what he learned by writing this book.
"We all have passions if we choose to see them," he writes. "Most of us don't get epiphanies. We don't get clarity. Our purpose doesn't arrive neatly packaged as destiny. We only get a whisper. A blank, nonspecific urge. That's how it starts."
With humor, empathy, and insight, Po Bronson probes the depths of people who learned how to hear the whisper, who overcame fear and confusion to find a larger truth about their lives. A meditation, a journey, and a triumph of story-telling, What Should I Do with My Life? is a life-changing book by a writer who brilliantly tackles the big questions.
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Wouldn't it be so much easier if you got a letter in the mail when you were seventeen, signed by someone who had a direct pipeline to Ultimate Meaning, telling you exactly who you are and what your true destiny is?
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In "What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson tells the inspirational true stories of people who have found the most meaningful answers to that great question. With humor, empathy, and insight, Bronson writes of remarkable individuals--from young to old, from those just starting out to those in a second career--who have overcome fear and confusion to find a larger truth about their lives and, in doing so, have been transformed by the experience. "What Should I Do with My Life? struck a powerful, resonant chord on publication, causing a multitude of people to rethink their vocations and priorities and start on the path to finding their true place in the world. For this edition, Bronson has added nine new profiles, to further reflect the range and diversity of those who broke away from the chorus to learn the sound of their own voice.
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- Title What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
- Author Po Bronson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 402
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date December 30, 2003
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780375758980 / 0375758984
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002069706
- Dewey Decimal Code 170.44
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