{"id":38,"date":"2011-12-09T03:52:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatsheread\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-12-09T03:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:53:33","slug":"what-should-i-do-with-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatsheread\/2011\/12\/09\/what-should-i-do-with-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should I Do With My Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This is one of my all-time favorite non-fiction books, and I\u2019m not even wondering what to do with my life.\u00a0 Bronson does such a captivating job weaving together the stories of people he met while thinking about how to answer the \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d question.\u00a0 And he pulls it all together with wise observations about what he learned during this research and how it applies to his own life.<\/p>\n<p>I quote something from this book in at least half the talks I give. Here\u2019s one of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I started this book, I thought the Question [What do you do?] was a scourge on our society, an contagious mental virus transmitted via verbal exchanges.\u00a0 But I\u2019m staring to see that the Question is how we hold ourselves accountable to the opportunity we\u2019re given\u2026. 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