Career Searching After Popping a Lung Running

My friend's book project, When to Jump, asks important questions about passion, sacrifice, boldness, risk. He follows "successful" people - whose success is measured by fulfillment - and tells their stories of taking leaps of faith, eschewing the comfortable and expected for the uncertain yet passionate. Their accounts inspire readers to make jumps of their own and to trust in the zigzag path that ultimately reaches "the destination," so long as the compass holds true. "When to jump?" he asks. "When to jump," he teaches. When to jump.

I'm in a phase where everything seems like a jump. Overwhelmed by the paradox of choice, feeling like I'm spinning in circles, I'll sometimes pull out a world map and let my eyes glaze over it, hoping that the energy of some painted corner of the globe will call out to me.

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