How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life)

that following our values, passions and talents is the most likely way to satisfy our hunger for fulfilment.

I could see its future so clearly laid out before me and it filled me with dread.

Do we want to follow the glittering allure of money and

Grin and bear it? Forget it. This is a book for those who are looking for a job that is big enough for their spirit, something more than a ‘day job’ whose main function is to pay the bills. It is a guide for helping you take your working life in new directions, and for bringing your career and who you are into closer alignment.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To hims

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.

research: the most emotionally corrosive form of regret occurs when we fail to take action on something that matters deeply to us.

Martin Seligman calls a ‘hedonic treadmill’: as we get richer and accumulate more material possessions, our expectations rise, so we work even harder to earn money to buy more consumer goods to boost our wellbeing, but then our expectations rise once more, and on it goes.

‘Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.’