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PO BRONSON

(Expert # 64)

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nson is a novelist and writer of op-eds, performance monologues, book
re ie s, screenplays, and radio scripts. He believes that anything that gets people
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attention is like a gift to the author. He is on the b
Book Sales & Distribution and the editorial board of Zoetrope: All Story
magazine.

Po, who grew up in Seattle, received an M.F.A. in creative writing from San
Francisco State University and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.
Since high school, he has had many different jobs. At age
position as a full-time bond salesman with projected first-year commissions o
$300,000. But he turned it down.

Po began work on his book, What Should I Do With My Life?, because he was
asking himself the same question. He found ordinary people across America wh
had discovered their true calling or at least were trying to find it. He the
profiles of those who had actually confronted and gotten past their psychological
stumbling blocks. Po’s first novel, Bombardiers, became an international best-
seller

David Riklan’s favorite Po Bronson Quotes and Thoughts

• Addressing the question, “What should I do with my life?,” isn’t just a

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productivity issue. It’s a moral imperative.

• Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerou