How To Start: Discovering Your Life's Work - From The Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist

How To Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work by Jodi Kantor is a practical, clear-eyed guide to finding meaningful work in a world that doesn’t offer simple career maps. Drawing on her experience as a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist—plus her own early stumbles—Kantor writes with candour about how real working lives begin: messy, uncertain, and full of pressure to look “sorted”.

Rather than leaning on motivational talk, this career advice book focuses on two grounded ideas: building craft and meeting a genuine need. Kantor shows how that pairing can help you make smarter choices about money, risk, ambition and integrity—especially in an era shaped by workplace change, cost-of-living stress and AI.

Perfect for new graduates, early-career readers, and anyone reassessing their direction, How to Start suits fans of thoughtful nonfiction and practical self-help with substance.

Add it to your stack when you’re ready to plan your next step with confidence.