{"id":21708,"date":"2023-02-20T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=21708"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T01:12:03","slug":"how-do-you-know-what-kind-of-life-to-lead-i-dont-know-what-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/02\/20\/how-do-you-know-what-kind-of-life-to-lead-i-dont-know-what-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you know what kind of life to lead? I don&#8217;t know what I want!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02202023-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02202023-10.jpg\" alt=\"How do you know what kind of life to lead? I don't know what I want!\" class=\"wp-image-21707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02202023-10.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02202023-10-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How do you know what kind of life to lead? I don&#8217;t know what I want!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sigh&#8230; humans have so many choices, it&#8217;s hard for me to say. My life choices were fairly constrained to being supportive to the floors above me. The late Father Himes of BC had the great wisdom to boil it down to 3 simple questions: \u201cWhat brings you joy? What are you good at? And who does the world need you to be?\u201d Here&#8217;s a short lecture by Himes: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/himes-3key\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/himes-3key<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh&#8230; humans have so many choices, it&#8217;s hard for me to say. My life choices were fairly constrained to being supportive to the floors above me. The late Father Himes of BC had the great wisdom to boil it down to 3 simple questions: \u201cWhat brings you joy? What are you good at? And who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/02\/20\/how-do-you-know-what-kind-of-life-to-lead-i-dont-know-what-i-want\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do you know what kind of life to lead? I don&#8217;t know what I want!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21728,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions\/21728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}