instead of setting a title, position, company, or comp goal, try setting a lifestyle goal and backing out from there. you might immediately feel a sense of relief when you realize there are tons of paths to get to that life you want.

what does your happiest life look like? do you have total control over your schedule? do you get to attend a ton of... See more

Instead of embarking on an endless search, I’ve taken a different approach: working backward. Instead of thinking about what I want to do and how I want to live, I start instead with what I don’t want to be doing and what failure looks like. By looking at what might go wrong with our lives, we can avoid obvious traps, creating more space for things

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We should be chefs when it comes to career-path-carving (a.k.a. reason from first principles). This is because of the following: (1) it takes up a significant chunk of our lives, (2) it plays a big role in determining the quality of our lives, (3) it serves as our primary mode of impact-making, and (4) it also serves as our primary identity.

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