Decisions for Life: The Two Most Important Decisions You will Ever Make in Life.
The paradox of life is that people seem to deliberate more carefully over little choices than the big ones. Before buying a car, they read all the ratings, check out resale values on the internet, and so on. But when it comes to choosing a vocation, they just sort of slide rather than decide. They slide incrementally into a career because someone gave them a job. They marry the person whom they happen to be living with. — David Brooks, The Second Mountain. What do you want to do with your life? Who do you want to do it with?