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"The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life"

Aired on Monday, November 24th.

On this edition of ST, we speak by phone with Chris Guillebeau, an entrepreneur, traveler, and New York Times bestselling author. His first two books were "The Art of Non-Conformity" and "The $100 Startup" -- and today he tells us about his newest book, "The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life." Within the last year or so, Guillebeau completed his personal quest to visit every country in the world before reaching the age of 35. Accomplishing that incredible goal led him to write this equally practical and inspirational book, which focuses not only on the author's own aims and ambitions but also on those of a widely diverse range of other people. Indeed, as a writer for Forbes.com has noted, Guillebeau "endeavors to bring the notion of questing closer to home by featuring a largely 'ordinary' cast of characters, and in so doing, he succeeds.... But 'The Happiness of Pursuit' isn't merely a collection of stories woven together in an attempt to titillate our daydreams. [The author] manages to wrangle the seemingly fantastical notion of questing into our everyday reality through a combination of diverse mini-narratives and practical advice on everything from how to recognize a worthy quest to how to fund one."

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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