Any of these ambitions might actually match your true purpose. If so, you’ll feel a powerful inward compulsion to follow that particular path. You’ll find the steps along the way fascinating and fulfilling, and as a result you’ll be good at them. But if you pursue any course of action solely because other people think it’s “purposeful,” prepare to hit dense fog. You’ll encounter baffling failures. You won’t get along with people. You won’t be able to drum up the energy to climb the success ladder—or for that matter, to wash your hair.
