The Inheritance of Choice
Q. How much choice have you had over your working life compared with your parents and grandparents?
A. Much more
Conclusion. Our generation is blessed with the challenge of Choice. It's important to realize this as a source of stress.
Action: Limit my options.
The Perils of Education
What were the key moments in your education that shaped the directions of your career?
The Flawed Science of Personality Testing
What are the three main reason why you are feeling confused about where to go next?
What are your three greatest fears about changing career?
What the three biggest practical challenges you face?
The 5 Dimensions of Meaning
- earning money (E)
- achieving status (E)
- making a difference (I)
- following our passions (I)
- using our talents (I)
Motivating factors:
Extrinsic - approaching work as a means to an end
Intrinsic - work valued as an end in itself
Money and the Good Life
Q. What would you like to change most about your attitude to money?
Status and the Secrets of Embalming
Q. Who do you imagine is judging your status - perhaps family, old friends or colleagues? Do you want to grant them that power?
I Want to Make a Difference
Q. Where do your talents meet the world?
How to Cultivate Passions and Talents
Q. What would being a wide achiever encompass for you?
Following your passion - 80,000 hours
People keep being told to “follow their passions”. But just because you’re passionate about something, doesn’t mean that a career in it will make much difference: a passionate mime artist is still just a mime artist!
The problem is that “follow your passion” gets it backwards. Prior interest in an area is not a particularly good way of predicting how well you’ll perform or how satisfied you’ll be. Instead, research shows that deep satisfaction emerges over time from doing work you’re good at that helps others. Rather than starting from your passions, start with the aim of making a difference. If you believe the work you do is worthwhile, you will grow to be passionate about it.
Imagining Your Many Selves
The Map of Choices
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The Personal Job Advertisement
Look at the text to the right which is from my Google+ and LinkedIn profile
Act First, Reflect Later
Experimental Projects, or How to Have Thirty Jobs in One Year
Interviews
Q. Brainstorm 3 possible selfs, Act nw, reflect later
Course, Kite
I flow therefore I am:
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The Captive Slave
Q. What is the Freedom that you most desire for your working life?
Talk about Heart to Start
