The Best Book About Finding Your Path From 2019

Forge’s pick for the year’s best read on picking the right parachute

Kelli María Korducki
Forge

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Credit: Deb Lindsey

2019 perfectly encapsulated the disorienting, occasionally dystopian decade it capped off. Amid economic uncertainty, political upheaval, and the looming shadow of climate catastrophe, we searched for answers. We grasped for mentors. And we read books — many, many books. Within the flux of chaos, these books showed us new approaches for our work, our relationships, our minds, and our moods.

Every day this week, we’ll offer you one of our favorite personal development books of the year, as well as a runner-up in each category.

Forge’s favorite book about finding your path from 2019:

RANGE: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Whether we realize it or not, we begin absorbing our culture’s misleading baggage about specialization practically as soon as we exit the womb. It isn’t long after a child begins nursery school that they’re prompted to answer the question, “What do you…

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Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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