Follow Your Inspiration

• “Follow your passion” is frustratingly meaningless if, like many people, you don’t have a passion to follow.

• We don’t have much evidence that matching your job to a pre-existing interest makes you more likely to find that work satisfying.

When you hit burnout, you become numb to the world; it’s difficult to feel joy and gratitude, which is what keeps you fueled in the face of challenges. So recovery means getting adequate rest and reestablishing joy to your life.

While recovering do things that make...

Having work and tasks that we feel real have meaning behind and enjoy doing for the sake of doing is ideal to achieve flow. Money. Awards. Praise. These can be byproducts of the flow work you do, but they cannot be the core motivation behind what you’re doing.

If you can find that k...