When we first began talking about writing this book, we were sitting in a small tea shop near Bongaigaon College, watching the rain fall on the dusty road outside. We had both been thinking about the same question for many months, maybe years: why do our students seem so lost? Not lost in their studies—they are often brilliant, scoring high marks, mastering technology, and winning competitions—but lost in a deeper way. They can solve complex mathematics problems but struggle to know what i...