The Art of Work

Description

What’s befallen you is uncommon,” my companion Mark said to

me not long before I settled on one of the most significant choices

of my life—the choice to leave my place of employment and become a fulltime essayist. My last day at work likewise happened to be my

thirtieth birthday celebration, which made it an achievement in numerous

regards. The reality, however, is simply the day was less

huge than the procedure it took to arrive.

When asked how I got to this point, I battle to give an

insightful answer. The experience of finding your calling

can be both baffling and down to earth. It requires exertion yet in addition

appears to transpire now and again. What I’ve come to

comprehend is that finding your motivation is to a greater degree away

than an arrangement: it includes exciting bends in the road that you never

anticipated. At last these astonishments lead you to your

predetermination. What’s more, when you show up at what you thought was the

goal, you understand it’s just another leg in the excursion.

This book is a depiction of that way, just as the

steps it takes to explore it.