
The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

Limits can be applied to any system in order to dramatically improve the outcome without having to dramatically improve the inputs. I didn’t add more time in my life to be healthy, I just changed the limits that I was addressing with the time I already had available. “Give me a lever long enough…and I shall move the world.” Addressing the limit is
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The ability individuals have right now to deliberately design their lives and realities is greater than at any time in history.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
The dominant institution is shifting from Corporation to the Individual (or self). What used to require large companies, technology, and globalization has now been made available to the individual or micro-multinational.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
The second rule of career planning: Instead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities.67
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
The Industrial Revolution and the factory dramatically increased the amount of wealth someone could accumulate by making the creation of goods much more efficient, and thus cheaper to the consumer. As the Neolithic Revolution let individuals start saving material wealth, the Industrial Revolution accelerated this trend.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
We live in a society defined by what venture capitalist Peter Thiel calls indefinite optimism. While we all sense on some level the expanding amount of possibility and opportunity available to us, you must step up to seize it. While many feel destined for something more, something bigger, few of us have taken actions to seize it. We
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
Entrepreneurship is connecting, creating, and inventing systems—be they businesses, people, ideas, or processes. A job is the act of following the operating system someone else created.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
This natural desire for increasing amounts of freedom has been one of the main drivers in the advancement of civilization. We’ve gone from one man, Luther; to a small group of men, the Founding Fathers; to a whole segment of society, the middle class Baby Boomer generation. And in each case, not only has the size of the group increased, but so too
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As a society, we’re paying people more money to do things which create less wealth. Yet we’re at a point where we can create more wealth and make more money for ourselves and others by pursuing work which forces us to grow in a way we personally find meaningful.