“You will find a goal - you will work towards it - you will look for a way to achieve your goal - even if there is no way, you will make it. Once you pass the path, you will never go back again. Because unnecessary return is failure - falling into repetition - closing the horizon. "To find a goal - to pave the way and not to return from the same path... This is our purpose in life." İLBER ORTAYLI Becoming your own architect and embarking on life... Talent - discovery - curiosity - potential - enthusiasm - the instinct to survive... Ways and methods of learning - working - thinking... We will work - we will read - we will see - we will plan - we will build a life for ourselves - okay, but which way do we do this? Will we make it to measure? In this book, İlber Ortaylı explains how to determine one's purpose in life - how to set one's goal - how to plan one's future - how to evaluate one's potential, by traveling through the centuries and including the views of the great thinkers of history that have challenged thousands of years. He answers the questions we ask ourselves every day and have difficulty finding answers in the light of his own experiences and vast knowledge. · How does one build oneself? · What skills should we have to evaluate our potential? · How does one set one's goals and make plans for the future? · How do we discover and develop our talent and curiosity? · Can we be the architect of our own luck? · What is the art of looking around - how to learn it? · Why is happiness both our right and our duty? · Where will we find the strength to resist in the most difficult times and where will we look for inspiration? How Does Man Build His Future? From an intellectual who considers it his duty to share his life experience - İlber Hodja - a guide for readers to open a path - to make a path - to build oneself and to raise the society. With the inspiration of sages such as Plato- Seneca- Cicero- Farabi and the questions of Yenal Bilgici...