A career that energizes you instead of depleting you does not land on your lap. You build it.
He had a lucrative career as a doctor or a researcher. And yet, he ditched everything for the unpredictable life of an author. He had graduated from Harvard Medical School. He had done a post-doctoral fellowship study at the Salk Institute for Biological studies.
Medicine was not the career he wanted to build. So, he quit. He did not let pride take away his dreams to become a writer. He didn’t want to be doing something he didn’t enjoy to preserve his pride.
His name was Michael Crichton. He was a best-selling author, a screenwriter, a film director, and a producer. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.
To your inspirations,
Banchi
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