The Path to Purpose

Damon's Stanford research gives this book a backbone that most purpose-and-parenting titles lack — the four-category typology of young people is genuinely useful, and the nine practitioner methods are grounded in data rather than anecdote. The academic prose occasionally buries the practical message, but the endorsements from Seligman and Pipher point to real peer credibility. Parents, teachers, or mentors who want evidence behind their intuitions about drifting teenagers will find this worth the effort.