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Navigate Your Stars by Jessmyn Ward

5/1/2021

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The book is small and to the point, and you can read in 20 minutes!  But don't be fooled, this book is so encouraging and inspiring and has some wonderful lessons.  It is a quick tale of life and the decisions that we all must make.

At one point in Navigate Your Stars, Jessmyn Ward felt that, in her family, the decision for most of them to leave school at an early age, "led to their downfalls".  She very quickly realized that there are much bigger and deeper issues that influence our lives, such as intergenerational poverty and trauma.  These types of issues had a lot to do with her family members decision making ability - and she soon understood how not to judge people because life is not nearly as simple as it seems.

She continues on to talk about her one perfect choice in life - the decision to attend Stanford University - and how that quickly became a bit of a joke.  She was not very successful after college and was not able to write the way she wanted to or find the job that she wanted.  And then tragedy struck.  Her brother was killed in an accident, and everything changed.

Ward makes it clear that you have to find something meaningful in life in order to find your successful path and that success is not the result of making just one good choice.  You have to make many choices and take many, many steps to find your path in life.  


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