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successful firms I know, all of the individual partners act as if they have personal strategic plans for their own careers—they have each thought through what their special value on the marketplace will be, what will make them more than just one more practitioner in their specialty, how they plan to achieve this vision of personal career progress.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Start by considering the end. Visualise both the road to personal fulfilment and the destination. Consider what behaviour would thwart that fulfilment and do the opposite. Thinking about the route to avoid helps reveal the more rewarding road.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
the Big Five traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness)
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
educational researcher at the University of Pennsylvania named Erling Boe,
Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers
You need these three things.
Competency — do things you are good at and get better at things you stink at. Take up hobbies and persevere.
Relatedness — human connections are everything. You can’t live in a silo. Be part of a community. Leave bad relationships.
Autonomy — you are the boss of your life. Be deliberate in what you do, who you know, and
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Martin E. P. Seligman • Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Seligman’s book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being (New York: Atria Books, 2012).
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
I’ve come to believe that there are four enduring sources of a joyful life. I call these Connection, Control, Competence, and Context. Connection is the need to belong. Control is the need to direct one’s own destiny. Competence is the need to be good at something worthwhile. Context is the need for a purpose outside of one’s self.