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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.
- Tra...
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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 euda...
- 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 "harmoniou...
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 ...
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The main flaw of “finding your passion” presupposes that interests and passions are fixed, rather than fluid and evolving as we age and gain wisdom and experience.
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It is a state of being where you are entirely absorbed in what you are doing, known as flow by modern psychological science, productive activity by humanist philosopher Erich Fromm, and the right effort by Buddha.
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All of us have hopes and dreams for the future that become part of our identity. But then reality gets in the way. Your passion may fade, or the obstacles to realising the dream may become too big to overcome. You may have feelings of regret and failure, or fear how others will j...
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