What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

by Po Bronson

the biggest obstacle to answering the question this book poses is that people don’t give themselves permission to take it seriously.

We have mixed feelings about the seductive notion of destiny. There’s a persistent tension between wanting our life’s purpose to be revealed to us by some higher power and wanting to scrap and fight for it against all odds—to earn it without help.