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.

status, or to be guided in our search for meaning by our values, talents and passions?

the feeling that we are respected by others for what we do and how we do it is one of the keys to having a meaningful career.

Yet it will also become clear that pursuing a career mainly because it offers the tempting rewards of money and status is an unlikely route to the good life.

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

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

five different aspects of what can make a job meaningful: earning money, achieving status, making a difference, following our passions, and using our talents.

The second question threading its way through this book is: how do we go about changing career and making the best possible decisions along the way?

First, what are the core elements of a fulfilling career? We need to know what we are actually searching for, and it turns out that there are three essential ingredients: meaning, flow and freedom.