A dozen lives

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Bruce Feiler. Or, as one of my favorite comics says: “It takes about seven years to master something. If you live to be 88, after age 11, you have 11 opportunities to be great at something. Those are your lifetimes. Use them.” Do not fall prey to the self-consistency fallacy. Learn something new. Change careers. Take a risk. Reimagine your identity

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

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many of us evolve so much over a lifetime that we don’t want to keep doing the same thing for decades on end.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

For me strategy was about insatiable curiosity, falling down rabbit holes, connecting seemingly disparate dots, being that annoying kid in the backseat of the car on a long road trip who keeps asking ‘but, why?’, diving deep on subjects I’d never explored before, becoming a master of pointless trivia and therefore excellent in a pub quiz scenario.

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Zoe • The Magpie Mind

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Our career decisions are more reversible than we think

Humans suffer from what psychologists call the end of history illusion. We tend to understand that we’ve undergone significant personal growth and changes in taste to bring us to the present moment, but we discount the fact that we’ll change in the future.

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Simone Stolzoff • In Praise of the Meandering Career

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I like to think of careers as less like ladders and more like lily pads. In retrospect, some hops might look as if they were on a path, while others might look like a digression. Some might prioritize work, others might prioritize life outside of work. But whatever you hop to next, know you’ll have the chance to hop again. Little in life is permane

Simone Stolzoff • How to Find Clarity When You’re at a Career Crossroads

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In Praise of the Meandering Career

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Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

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Early in my career, I was also the guy who kept up with ten different industries so I wouldn’t have to define myself by any single one of them. But recently, my values have started to change. I now want multi-decade friendships and a professional life where I can build things that compound in value at an exponential rate; I want a place I call home... See more

perell.com • Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell

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