How Did You Find Your Life’s Work?
We talk to Jodi Kantor about her new book, “How to Start.”
May 8, 2026
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How Did You Find Your Life’s Work?
Summary
How can we find and start our life’s work? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jodi Kantor tried to answer for Columbia University’s seniors last spring in a graduation speech that went viral. She urged graduates facing a brutal job market to focus on two things: need and craft. Kantor encouraged graduates to use that lens to assess what services, products or information society will most need in their working lives and what expertise they can develop to bring them to fulfillment. We talk to Kantor about her new book “How to Start.”
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Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter, The New York Times; author, "How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work"
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