A thoughtful approach to identifying individualized definitions of success and creating a career path to that end. Based on the author’s Wharton course, the first part explores the tensions among personal needs, family, cultural standards, and meaningful work. The second is a more conventional tour of capabilities, motivation, self-confidence, etc. The framework for identifying a vocation is ‘passion, imagination, intuition, reason’. Generally free of cloying tropes of the success industry.