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

Po Bronson spends a great deal of time protesting that he doesn't know what you should do with your life and doesn't want to influence you, he then spends pages explaining how he talked with lots of lost people who were asking themselves what they should be doing and cleared that question right up for them. The book is an exploration around the idea we seem to have that we all have a vocation waiting or us if we could just figure out what it is or how to get to it. Bronson interviewed many people in an effort to explore these issues, and tells us way more than we want to know about how he himself has dealt with them. I was annoyed with Bronson's tone in this book, and with his all-knowing attitude. Moreover, the book doesn't really come to any real point, much less any conclusions. Bronson can't possibly answer that question for all the people who will read the book, but neither does he give his readers any real tools for doing so themselves.
Posted by supersusie at October 24, 2003 10:49 PM