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- Hardcover: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.33 x 9.50 x 6.46
- Publisher: Random House; ; 1st edition (December
24, 2002)
- ISBN: 0375507493
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Book Description
“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment
and, sometimes, failure, the book will support anyone pondering a major life
choice or risk without force-feeding them pat solutions.”
—Publishers Weekly
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.
From the Back Cover
Although all three of his books have been critically acclaimed
bestsellers, author Po Bronson began work on What Should I Do with My Life?
because he was asking himself that very question.
For
answers, he crossed the landscape of America to find people who have struggled
to unearth their true calling—people of all ages, classes, and professions
who have found fulfillment: those who fought with the seduction of money, intensity,
and novelty and overcame their allure; those who broke away from the chorus
to learn the sound of their own voice.
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