People are social creatures. Even with the ever rushing tide of technology that threatens to crush us all in a soulless dystopian wasteland, people will still want to connect with other people rather than some kind of robot. That is the basic premise of “You Can Do Anything” by George Anders.

People all seem to brag about having a STEM career or education while totally ignoring the fact that people skills are being shunted aside in favor of knowledge. Thus, a Liberal Arts education or degree of any kind gives a person a sort of balance and competence that employers are looking for. People may chortle and denigrate you for your choices, especially your parents, but there is something to remember in this case, it is your life. It is not your mom’s life, not your dad’s life, not your rich uncle’s life. So they may be holding the purse strings but you are the captain of the ship.

In that vein, Anders gives plenty of advice and support to people that may be considering a liberal arts degree or those people that have one already. Just because you have a Masters Degree in Anthropology doesn’t land you in the fast lane for a career in Starbucks. For instance, the author decided to attend a class that studied the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the masterful Russian Novelist. The basic idea was to go and read all of his works in ten weeks and boil that information down into an eight-page paper that was a majority of their grade. The professor chucked them into the breach and didn’t hold their hands, so Anders had to come up with some serious study methods. He had to deal with the stress and pressure without any help.

The book covers all of that and more. I can see this book giving people a lot of hope and ideas in how to succeed in whatever they may want to do. ( )

This book provides some insights into possible where-to-go-from-heres with your Liberal Arts degree... That about sums it up. *DISCLAIMER: I won this in a GOODREADS giveaway from Little, Brown and Company.* ( )