Paul Angone - 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties: (And Lets Be Honest, Your Thirties Too)

Paul Angone has done it again! With his signature sauce of wit, warmth, and wisdom, he cuts right to the core of whats most essential with this book of crucial life lessonsand questionsfor your twenties, thirties, and beyond. As Paul says in the book, To find good answers, we must first ask good questions. Here are 101 to get you started. Youll be laughing, smiling, sighing with relief, and ponderingand beyond that, better able to adapt and change when faced with those unanswered prayers and plans that inevitably go awry, all for the sake of helping you grow into your best, biggest life.

Jenny Blake

Author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One and Life After College

Angone, who wrote the uber-popular 101 Secrets For Your Twenties, comes full force again with his new book. With his usual blend of humor, warmth, and hard truths, Angone throws dozens of gut-check questions right in your face like a splash of ice-cold water you never knew you always needed. 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties is sure to be the new blueprint to help any young professional or college graduate find their true north.

Danny Rubin

Author of Wait, How Do I Write This Email?: Game-Changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search

As one who didnt start getting it until my 30s (better late than never, right?), I found myself wondering how much faster Id have come to know (and genuinely dig) myself had a copy of this book showed up on my doorstep as I grappled with the life, relationship, and career decisions that rough most of us up throughout our 20s.

Jenny Foss

Career strategist and founder of JobJenny.com

Paul has a way of sharing his own story to make you laugh and let you know hes been there, but also encouraging you to look inside yourself to answer the tough questions to move your life forward. I cant think of a twentysomething who wouldnt benefit from having this smart book on their bookshelf.

Molly Beck

Author of Reach Out and founder of MessyBun.com

If you only read one book in your twenties, and I hope you read more, then make it this one. Its an essential list of questions we all need to be asking ourselves at every stage of life, especially young adulthood. Seriously. Its that good.

Jeff Goins

Bestselling author of The Art of Work

To my son, Judah. May your life be full of wisdom, creativity, and great friends asking you good questions.

2018 by PAUL ANGONE

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

Edited by Connor Sterchi

Cover and interior design: Erik M. Peterson

Scripture quotations are from The ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Angone, Paul, author.

Title: 101 questions you need to ask in your twenties : (and lets be honest, your thirties too) / Paul Angone.

Description: Chicago, IL : Moody Publishers, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018004060 (print) | LCCN 2018001216 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802496539 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802416919

Subjects: LCSH: Young adults--United States. | Young adults--Life skills guides. | Conduct of life. | Success.

Classification: LCC HQ799.7 (print) | LCC HQ799.7 .A539 2018 (ebook) | DDC

305.2420973--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018004060

ISBN: 978-0-8024-1691-9

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There I was at the bottom of a 15-foot hill that Id apparently just rolled down, lying face-first in weeds and shrubs, in a full baseball uniform, unconscious.

Definitely a unique place to find yourself on a Saturday afternoon.

Where am I? Did someone just hit me in the head with a baseball bat?

As I became conscious, these were the questions stumbling through my mind, like a surgery patient whod just come to.

How in the world did I get here?

You see, fifteen minutes earlier I was sitting in the dugout with my college baseball team. I wasnt starting in the game, so I had a front-row seat to watch our weekly routine of getting absolutely crushed by the team we were playing.

To say we were a bad baseball team would be a polite way to put it.

Since we usually played two games every Saturday, and since the other team would score run after run after run after run to their sheer delight, this made for a very long, depressing day. Every Saturday, while all our friends were at the beach (because they certainly didnt want to watch our game and subject themselves to that kind of misery), we just sat and stared at our own sadness for hours.

So when you were sitting the bench, like I was that Saturday with a handful of other teammates, it was a treat, a reprieve, a needed escape, to be the one to find a foul ball that was just hit.

Our baseball field stood above what we called the barrancas, a steep gully filled with dense, wild California plants, eucalyptus trees, and a small stream that cut through it. Trying to find a foul ball shot into this dense, wild greenery felt like being an explorer trying to locate the fabled city of golda grand adventure that was probably going to turn up empty-handed. But heck, when your other option was watching your team lose again by 20 runs, you searched for that ball with the diligence of Corts!

On this fateful Saturday, as I saw the foul ball fly above our backstop and into the barrancas, I shot out of the dugout, my mind and body ready to escape from our baseball cage. Plus, your best chance of actually finding the ball was to somehow spot where it landed or see it bounce off some rock and into the air. I quickly ran on a path under our wood bleachers on top of a ridge by the barrancas, my eyes looking out for the ball, when