In this chapter, these second act reinventors underscore the fact that if we pursue what we love, we can’t lose.

Making a Splash

Lawyer dives back into his first love  —  the water.

A calling is a sense that your very being is implicated in what you do. You feel that you fit into the scheme of things when you do this particular work. You have a sense of purpose and connection in the work. It defines you and gives you an essential tranquility. Toward the end of your life you may see all the jobs you have done as fateful, composing your life work and answering your calling.

— Thomas Moore

In the rising world of triathlons, athletes bunch together tightly in open water, forming a pack and elbow-throwing and splashing toward the finish line. Then, they climb onto dry land, strip off their goggles, wet suits, and bathing caps, don helmets, hop on cycles, sprint again, hop off, and then run to the final finish.

Triathlons have been called much more than a sport in motion; they’re a metaphor for all the little and big things that matter to a person who’s reaching for new goals.