How To Invent Yourself

As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and how to find a sense of purpose.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Lifeis agroundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—provi...