This book gave me so much hope, and still does to a degree.
At a time when all hell was braking loose around me. Only months before reading this I had my Breakdown, admitted myself into The Priory for a 5 week 'get your head around this brain fuck of a diagnosis'.
During this admission I decided to leave my career and sell my home, so unilaterally disarmed and detonated all that I had spent the better part of my adult life trying to acquire and achieve.
(No small thing Mr. Indeed it is not. Something I like to remind people on a pretty regular basis. I did all the things that most people only dream about. Now look at me, I traveled, took time out and now I run my own enjoyable and successful home based eBay business which allows me to structure my life the way I want it structured. All because of a seemingly random and 'popular modern past time', having a Breakdown in work hours. Nice.)
Yet here I was, no job, no home, a Bipolar label and some pills. Now what?
This is where the book came in.The timing could not of been better with the release of this book, almost like it was meant to be. I read this book eagerly and it gave me so much hope and inspiration at a time when I bloody well needed it. It turned things around for me and made me realise how much potential there is in life...
I cannot rate this book highly enough, it worked for me and I still smile when I think about how it all came undone then started coming together again.
If you are at a point where all you see is crossroads, or you are in a similar position to what I found myself in, or if you are just plain fucked up bored at work and figure there must be something else better out there that's obtainable then..
Please buy and read this book... it's heartwarming, it's sincere and it's full of real life hope. Real life hope, not made up hope.
Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage (31 Dec 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099437996
ISBN-13: 978-0099437994
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.9 inchesAmazon.co.uk Review
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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
Po Bronson tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, ‘what should I do with my life?’It is a problem that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them. The modern route to self-discovery is to trade what you have for a completely different way of life, to face the challenges and finally confront our real aims and desires.
Bronson’s book is a fascinating account of finding and following people who have uprooted their lives and fought with these questions in radical ways. From the investment banker who gave it all up to become a catfish farmer in Mississippi, to the chemical engineer from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties; these stories of individual dilemma and dramatic – and sometimes unsuccessful – gambles are bound up with Bronson’s account of his own search for a calling.
Synopsis
Po Bronson tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life?' It is a problem that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them. The modern route to self-discovery is to trade what you have for a completely different way of life, to face the challenges and finally confront our real aims and desires. Bronson's book is a fascinating account of finding and following people who have uprooted their lives and fought with these questions in radical ways. From the investment banker who gave it all up to become a catfish farmer in Mississippi, to the chemical engineer from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties; these stories of individual dilemma and drama - and sometimes unsuccessful gambles are bound up with Bronson's account of his own search for a calling.
About the Author
Po Bronson is a feature writer for Wired and has written about high-tech culture for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes ASAP. His first novel, Bombardiers, was translated into ten languages and became an international bestseller. His second novel, The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest, was a New York Times bestseller. Bronson grew up in Seattle, graduated from Stanford in 1986, and lives in San Francisco.
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