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In Praise of the Meandering Career
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
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The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
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If you commit yourself prematurely to a straight path, you may close off numerous winding paths leading to far more satisfying versions of success.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Most people are at least a little bit wrong about what they think they want to do when they start out. The first decade of your career should be about collecting experiences, not locking into a path too soon. The best way to figure out what’s right is by trying things and paying attention.A few key signals:- Do you leave work feeling energized or d... See more
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The implications of this insight aren’t confined to creative work. In many areas of life, there’s strong cultural pressure to strike out in a unique direction—to spurn the conventional options of getting married, or having kids, or remaining in your hometown, or taking an office job, in favor of something apparently more exciting and original. Yet
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