The Summoned Life summary.

In the Summoned self by David Brooks, Brooks tells the readers about two separate ways to approach life.
The first way to approach life, is what he calls the Well-Planned life. In the well-planned life, one doe exactly as said. You would plan out your life an project or paper and as you go throughout life, you would find your "overall purpose" of your life. (Brooks) By the time your life is over, you can look back and see that your life turned out just as you planned it out to be due to how you organized it to be.
The second way of life is called the summoned life. In the summoned life, instead of planning out ones life, you would just go about your life, taking on the world, day by day waiting to see what life holds for you next. Brooks states that when living the summoned life you live in "an unknown landscape [yet], to be explored" (Brooks). Unlike the Well-Planned life, you do not know the meaning of life because you have not lived through it all to see it. Instead of planning your life the way you want to like one would in the well-planned life, one would now try to figure out his overall purpose and what his destiny is. There is no right or wrong answer in which life to live, but rather ones own opinion on how he wishes to see life; as both methods are "useful for a person trying to live a well-considered life" (Brooks).