perennially great questions to ask

As you let the possibility of merging your career and your passion live in your mind, I’ve tried to distill the patterns that I’ve observed into a series of questions:

Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?

How will you avoid insecurity work?

Can you learn to enjoy the process as the end in itself, no... See more

How might I locate what I learn and experience in ways that equip me to apply them in the fleeting moments when I sense opportunities to do so?

What do you want your relationship to paid work to be?

Who do you secretly envy—and what does that reveal about what you truly value?

If you ask yourself how to be more you in whatever you’re in the thick of, what happens for you?

Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I p... See more