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How Did I Get Here? - Making Peace With The Road Not Taken (Paperback)
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How Did I Get Here? - Making Peace With The Road Not Taken (Paperback)
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A literary exploration that asks seeks to answer the question: Have
I lived the life I intended?Jesse Browner, a novelist with a
full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent
of the Talking Heads classic song "Once in a Lifetime." Based on an
essay he wrote for Poets and Writers Magazine, Browner asks hard
questions about life choices, about the tendency to believe there
is a parallel life that might have been more fulfilling or more
free. He wonders: Is the true artist made by single-minded devotion
to his craft? Do we compromise our dreams in service to
responsibilities to family and jobs?These questions prompted
Browner to take a hard look at himself and the evolution that
brought him to this moment of existential doubt. In How Did I Get
Here? he divides his adult life into five distinct
phases--ambition, love, work, fulfillment, and serenity. Sketching
portraits of himself at every stage, he looks for idiosyncrasies,
commonalities, and clues--signposts that lead him to today. He also
draws on the lives of others, from Franz Kafka to his sister to
indie rocker Elliott Smith, in search of understanding. What he
finds in his courageous quest is bravely honest and inspiring,
touching on what it means to live a life with intention and
meaning.
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