What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

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  • Author : Po Bronson
  • Binding : Hardcover
  • EAN : 9780375507496
  • Edition : 1
  • ISBN : 0375507493
  • Label : Random House
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Random House
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 400
  • Package Dimensions : 1.30 inches (Height) x 9.50 inches (Length) x 1.50 pounds (Weight) x 6.50 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2003-01
  • Publisher : Random House
  • SKU : 1100831755
  • Studio : Random House

Po Bronson wanted to find out what to do with his life so he started interviewing people who were asking the same question. He wound up writing an excellent self-help book, called, naturally enough, What Should I Do With My Life?, consisting almost entirely of questions instead of slick answers. Here are over 50 short real-life stories of people who woke up and realised that "this is not a dress rehearsal". They took the trouble to ask what life is for, where their real gifts lie and what they really want to do with their lives. The result is as fascinating and messy as life itself. Some of the people come out on top. They chuck out the routine grind with its dead-end expectations and find out what they are good at, follow their dream and find happiness. Others continue the struggle. They wade through days of confusion. They fight against society's shallow solutions. They battle with their doubts and fears. They kick against the trite expectations of family, friends, employers and lovers to keep up the search for their Holy Grail. Bronson has written up the stories with compassion, insight and sensitivity. But the tales avoid the usual sentimental feel-good factor that seems to be a requisite for self-help books. Instead we're shown the truth that following the impossible dream always has a price. Bronson mixes his sensitivity with a certain gritty reality and ironically this realism inspires other questing heroes much more than yet more syrupy positive thinking. This is a fresh, spiky book; an excellent kick start for anyone who wants to confront life's big questions. --Dwight Longenecker

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