perhaps what’s needed is not another question but rather a definitive statement—one that sums up who you are and what you mean to achieve in this life. If that seems like something that would be difficult to produce, it’s actually not—you just have to ask yourself, What is my sentence?86 This question was once posed by journalist and Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce to President John F. Kennedy. Luce told Kennedy “a great man is a sentence”—meaning that a leader with a clear and strong purpose could be summed up in a single line (e.g., “Abraham Lincoln preserved the union and freed the slaves”).
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