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 & finally confront our real aims & desires. Bronson's book is a fascinating account of finding & following people who have uprooted their lives & 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 & dramatic
- & sometimes unsuccessful
- gambles are bound up with Bronson's account of his own search for a calling.