Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

Peter Buffett

Language: English

Pages: 272

ISBN: 0307464725

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


From composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks, Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction?

You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless privilege. But the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes.

In Life Is What You Make It, Buffett expounds on the strong set of values given to him by his trusting and broadminded mother, his industrious and talented father, and the many life teachers he has met along the way.

Today’s society, Buffett posits, has begun to replace a work ethic, relishing what you do, with a wealth ethic, honoring the payoff instead of the process. We confuse privilege with material accumulation, character with external validation. Yet, by focusing more on substance and less on reward, we can open doors of opportunity and strive toward a greater sense of fulfillment. In clear and concise terms, Buffett reveals a great truth: Life is random, neither fair nor unfair.

From there it becomes easy to recognize the equal dignity and value of every human life—our circumstances may vary but our essences do not. We see that our journey in life rarely follows a straight line but is often met with false starts, crises, and blunders. How we push through and persevere in these challenging moments is where we begin to create the life of our dreams—from discovering our vocations to living out our bliss to giving back to others.

Personal and revealing, instructive and intuitive, Life Is What You Make It is about transcending your circumstances, taking up the reins of your destiny, and living your life to the fullest.
 

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decisions and enjoy the luxury of freedom, but I wasn’t quite there yet. There was something almost Zen about how it all turned out: I found my path not by exercising my will but by yielding it. And by the way, I’m very proud of the yearbook we produced my senior year. This story about the yearbook brings me to a more general topic—again, a subject that contains a lot of gray areas, ambivalence, and possible discomfort. It’s about the effect on kids when parents pull strings to get them

vocation into a livelihood. As a corollary to this most basic lesson, I also had to accept that my music, which I poured my heart and soul into, was rarely the most important part of the commercial package. The product was the most important part by far. Next came the imagery—since TV, after all, is primarily a visual medium. A fresh concept or catchy slogan probably came after that. Then there was the music. In the best case, the music played an important supporting role, setting the tone or

free world. He was lending his name and his prestige. Wasn’t that enough? “It turned out that it wasn’t nearly enough for the Carters, and I have to say I was humbled about my cynicism. The former first couple worked as hard as anyone. Jimmy—that was what he wanted to be called—cut vinyl siding, bending over a long table that held a power saw. Rosalynn took measurements, positioned the siding, and made sure it fit. She wore a big hat for shade, but still, her face was flushed with the heat. The

life has its challenges; one of mine, as I said at the outset, has been to make the best of a good situation. I think I’ve done an okay job at that. But let me be clear: I believe that all of us should be proud of our lives, because making a life is the one profound and sacred opportunity shared by every person ever born. Life is what we make it. No one else can do it for us; no one has the right to tell us what it ought to be. We make our own goals. We define our own successes. We don’t get to

intuition that exist within us—and that come to full flower only when we commit and focus with all our hearts. We have all heard stories about mothers lifting cars to free trapped children, and earthquake victims holding up roofs so that their loved ones might escape. No one who lived through 9/11 will ever forget the spectacle of firefighters streaming into the burning buildings even as the panicked civilians were racing out. Clearly, these are extraordinary acts in extraordinary circumstances,

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