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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.