Forging a Meaningful Career

Suppose that you sign up for a classical-music-appreciation class, in which your first assignment is to listen to a symphony. You put on headphones, press Play-and fall asleep. The problem is that you don't actually want to listen to classical music; you just want to want to. Aspiring, Callard thinks, is a common human activity: there are aspiring... See more

You have no idea how much life success comes from having the raw audacity to ask for things and just working with a diligent focus to be competent.

People inherently respect those traits so much that they feel a moral obligation to provide opportunities for you.

It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.

y creatively changing the world, I mean that a person must be revealing and expanding on some new facets of the world – so just reaching the top of your banking career and creating high-scale impact in something that was utterly predictable (for example, you closed a multi-billion dollar acquisition for amazon and an existing retail giant in a... See more

When someone takes an idea seriously enough, it begins to acquire its own gravity. This is usually my first thought when I encounter a piece of modern art, where the most common critique is “I could do that”. Yes, technically we could, but what we completely miss is that someone had to first take the possibility of doing it seriously. The apparent... See more

Ultimately, the true measure of any educational experience lies in how it empowers individuals to think critically, pursue meaningful goals, and contribute to society in ways that resonate with their authentic aspirations, conventional or otherwise, while maintaining reasonable levels of personal well-being.