Po Bronson's new book tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life?' It is a problem, he explains, that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them. With the intoxicating days of the 80s & 90s behind us & the world entering recession, many people are being forced to confront their real aims & desires. & the modern route to self, discovery, Bronson suggests, is to trade what you have for a completely different way of life. 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 enginner from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties, & the institutional investor who gave up his job & moved, disastrously, to Germany on a whim; these stories of individual dilemma & dramatic
- & sometimes unsuccessful
- gambles are bound up with Bronson's account of his own search for a calling.