Part one. Meandering career paths
1. Katharine Graham's transformation to Mrs Graham, CEO
2. The benefits of inefficient preparation
3. Ray Kroc's long apprenticeship
Part two. When fate intervenes
4. Intentionally unplanned careers: being ready for luck
5. Margaret Thatcher: chance favours the prepared mind
6. The importance of influential connections
7. Samuel Johnson's years of obscurity
8. Change your circumstances to change yourself
9. Audrey Sutherland: live immediately
10. The more you do, the more you succeed
11. Frank Lloyd Wright: the re-examined life
12. Reasons to have a midlife crisis
Conclusion: be your own interruption.
