What Should I Do with My Life? | PO BRONSON | Inspiring read that leaves you with something to...

What Should I Do with My Life? | PO BRONSON | Helped Me Choose Quickly

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	What Should I Do with My Life? PO BRONSON Random House, 2002 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 310 reviews view larger image
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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.

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Inspiring read that leaves you with something to think about

I think it this book is a great read and I recommend it to people who are wondering "what to do" with their lives. A collection of inspiring stories about different people and how they came into their lives. I found it a thoroughly satisfying read. Wide variety of personal stories, delivered in a pithy and straightforward way. I really like this book and I think it will resonate with anybody who has experienced the difficult of making and living with life and career choices. It would even be useful for recent college grads who are 'searching' for their corner of the world.

Although some would call this a "self-help" book, I disagree. It's inspirational, but it is not prescriptive. Po Bronson leaves it up to the reader to make of this book what they will.

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Helped Me Choose Quickly

At a time in my life when I have the opportunity to make choices about what to do next, this book helped me gain perspective by telling the stories of others' choices. I credit it with helping me to just choose the path where I have the most interest rather than continue to ponder and agonize over the perfect fit. I rarely get audiobooks but this time I enjoyed listening to Po Bronson's voice in my car during a couple long drives. Only 4 stars because the title implies more of a self-help book when it is really a collection of mini-biographies of people choosing a direction for their lives.

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Peoples' Lives are always interesting

This is NOT a career guide as described in the Amazon text above. To me this was simply a book about people. It is the people here who speak, not Mr. Bronson. He is being a modern day Studs Terkel perhaps, but this book let's a variety of folks talk about how they stumbled through their lives trying to figure out what gives them satisfaction, how to earn money, where to live et. Peoples'lives and struggles are always interesting, and sometimes their mistakes do not have to be our mistakes, but their lives can be inspiring nevertheless. This might be a nice gift for younger people.

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