Can you find your purpose without losing your mind? - The Conduit
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Can you find your purpose without losing your mind? - The Conduit
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How Behavioral Science Can Help Us Find Meaning in Our Work
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How boring to spend the whole of my vocational energy trying to figure out if I am choosing the right work. It is of much greater interest to me to talk about how I’m going to do the work with integrity. How am I going to protect dignity as I work? And what truths are calling out to me as I work?
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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recovering a sense of self and purpose
Coming to it honestly
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We can easily find ourselves pursuing a career that society considers prestigious, but which we are not intrinsically devoted to ourselves – one that does not fulfil us on a day-to-day basis.
The School of Life • How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life)
As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.
But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors— but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, ra
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One of the biggest challenges people have when embarking on an unconventional path is disconnecting from extrinsic markers of success and listening to internal motivational cues. On the default path, you can spend an entire career playing other people’s games. At first, people on a pathless path try to fill the lack of extrinsic goals with new ones... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
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