4 Rules for Identifying Your Life’s Work
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Your work is your reward
A big mistake many people make in their careers is to treat work as a means to an end, be it money, power, or prestige.
When a career is just a means to an end, the payoff will be unsatisfying. With the right goals - earning your success and serving others - you can make the work itself your reward.
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Choose an interesting career over a fun career
There are two basic types of speeches from commencement speakers: One is to “Go find your purpose.” The other is “Find work you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Scholars refer to two kinds of happiness as hedonic and eudaemonia. Hedonic is about feeling good; eudaemonia is about living a purpose-filled life.
But hedonic alone results in empty pleasure and eudaemonia by itself can become dry. In reality, we need a balance of enjoyable and meaningful. If you find something that genuinely interests you, it will lead to being intensely pleasurable.
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A career doesn’t have to be a straight line
There are four basic career patterns:
- Linear careers, which climb steadily upward, such as the "corporate ladder" or the billionaire entrepreneur.
- Steady-state careers involve staying at one job and growing in expertise.
- Transitory careers are ones in which people jump from job to job or field to field, looking for new challenges.
- Spiral careers are like a series of mini careers. People spend many years developing in a profession, then shift fields seeking work that builds on the skills of their previous mini careers.
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Beware of unhealthy passions
- An unhealthy passion is an obsessive passion, characterised by intense interest, negative mood and low concentration during the activity, and unhappiness when not engaged in the activity.
- Conversely, a healthy passion, also called "harmonious passion", is characterised by happiness, good concentration and a "flow state" while doing it.
While looking for something in which you are intensely interested, go further and ask "Does this job or career bring out the best in me?"
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