It’s the same inward journey we’ve seen before: the plunge inward and then the expansion outward. Instead, it’s about finding a match between a delicious activity and a social need. A vocation decision is not about finding the biggest or most glamorous problem in the world. It’s asking, What will touch my deepest desire? What activity gives me my deepest satisfaction? Second, it’s about fit. First, it’s not about creating a career path. But he is still a good example of someone who listened to his life, who plumbed his desires, who asked, What problems are around me? What has my life given me as preparation? How can the two go together? His story illustrates two final features of the vocation decision. Swaniker’s story is epic, and the institutions he is building are on a vaster scale than anything most of us will do.
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