ExpertDabbler

Is it fair to write about a book that I’ve read just about halfway?
Coz that’s what I am going to do now.

The book in question - Po Bronson’s “What should I do with my life”

The book is about people who at some point of time in their lives decide to re-examine their priorities, dreams, and ambitions and respond to their true calling.
They are the ones who simply roll up their sleeves and say, “Okay, let’s do something about this thing called life”. In other words not very different from the Sidin’s of the blogosphere.

The best part of the book is that the author is more of a chronicler than a writer. He is not trying to pigeonhole people and their actions into convenient sophisticated sounding section headings. Instead he listens to what they got to say by engaging them more as a friend. And it’s much more honest and off exaggerations than I expected.

How good is the book? To the extent i’ve read, the book is much better than what some of the Amazon book reviews suggest. Maybe some people could not relate to this mindset. There are some of my friends who find all this quite amusing. For them things are always very simple. Life is all about eschewing risks and making more money. It’s only dumb heads like me who confuse life.

Incidentally, its not that this is only an American mentality. Click here for more desi versions.

What’s more couple of my friends have already done something similar. A former Cisco Software Engineer in US quit her job and started taking documentaries. Another one is one the verge of doing the same and try his hands at moviemaking.

There is another who keeps saying “Ennamo poda, ipdiye irundha velaiku avadhu, edhavadhu pannanum, ana enna pannanumnu dhaan therila!!!”
That just about sums my mindset too