Constellation Thinking: Create a Life of Purpose Without a North Star

You are more than the one thing you’ve built your life around.

We’ve all been sold a myth about purpose. Choose a major, a passion, a path. Find your one true calling, we’re told, and everything else will fall into place. But what happens if we never find it? If we find it and lose it? Or if what once felt like a calling stops fitting the person we’ve become?

Michael Ventura learned this lesson the hard way. For 17 years, he built a company and wrapped his identity around it. Then he was fir...