The Unlost

You did everything right. Why doesn't anything feel right?

You worked hard. You listened to the experts. You even got the degree-and yet, here you are, looking into an uncertain future that refuses to fall into place. Stricken by possibilities. Worn down by comparisons. Gradually coming to believe that there's something everyone knows except for you.

There isn't. And you're not defective.

The Unlost is for the student who freezes at the thought of having to decide what to do with their life, and the graduate who made a hasty choice and regrets it. It is a down-to-earth, brutally truthful guide to the most bewildering experience that a young adult can go through: being lost to oneself and one's destination, when the rest of the world insists on knowing both before twenty-two.

Written by a student who graduated first in his class, left a computer science degree, went back to school for film production, and ended up unemployed for eight months, wondering if it was all worthwhile.

These pages will not fill your head with uplifting clichés. This guidebook draws on firsthand experience and failure, addressing all sorts of questions about the psychology behind choice paralysis to the harsh realities of money, love, and what you should do if everything goes awry.

Within these pages, you'll discover five tested methods of self-discovery, the Clarity Framework process for decision-making via trial and error, and the entire arsenal needed to replace your anxiety and defeatism with boldness and intention.

The fog doesn't lift before you walk into it. It lifts as you walk.

This is how you start walking.