Reading:What should I Do with My Life?

Posted on 19 February 2010

The book The Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink gave me a long list of new books to read and one of them was What Should I Do with My Life by Po Bronson. The title is quite impressive, isn’t it? What kind of information this book can have? was my first question and after reading more about the author and the book itself I’ve found that it’s a list of experiences of different people who answers that question.

From time to time, we ask ourselves if we feel good doing what we’re doing and I know that it’s quite complicated to answer when you feel comfortable with the daily routine (sleep -> work -> go out with friends/partner/wife -> go home -> sleep). How our lives can change if we do something that we love and do with passion? I believe that it will change dramatically.

Over all my professional work in software development, I saw a few programmers/project managers/software architects/software testers/etc. that work with passion and you can do great things with them but it’s quite complicated to do anything if you don’t do it with passion.

I love my career but sometimes you fall in the routine and it gets boring. This kind of books are really good pulling you forward and I really recommend you this book if you want to think about what should you do with your life.