How to Find Fulfilling Work
The School of Life
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How to Find Fulfilling Work
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Narrated by:
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David Thorpe
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Written by:
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Roman Krznaric
About this listen
Find life-enhancing work and realise your potential with this enlightening read. This is a book about how to take working life in new directions – how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are filled with pop psychology and bullet-point advice for writing CVs and making action plans, but How to Find Fulfilling Work casts its net wider. While not ignoring the insights of psychology or the need for practical planning, it reveals wisdom about work found in sociology, history, literature, film and philosophy.
It may be a false illusion that there is some perfect dream job out there for us, an ideal calling or vocation. But this book is premised on the idea that it is possible to find work that is life-enhancing. This is a book that inspires as much as it instructs and will aid self-reflection about the wider quest of how to live a good life.
©2012 The School of Life (P)2012 Macmillan Digital AudioExcellent guidance on how to make a career shift.
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This book blends itself well with some of the other titles from school of life to lead one to overall fulfillment or wholeness that comes with healthy emotional growth
Refreshing perspectives on work fulfillment
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*Chapter 1*
Work should be worth while and let us express who we are and want to be
Q. What are the core elements of fulfilling work?
Meaning+Flow+Freedom (MFF)
Q. How to change career and make the best decision?
Q. What is your current work doing to you as a person, to your mind, character, and relationships?
*Chapter 2*
Realise we change.
Don't make decision based on "sink cost" (already gone money/time) to regret in future
Q. How your career has shaped your life?
PS: Personality tests are not 100% accurate.
Q. Three main reason for your fear about changing career?
Q. Three main reason for your confusion?
Q. Three practical challenges
*Chapter 3*
Meaning
Map of choices include current job's motivation, approach, which meaning and future
Imaginary Lives- 5 Jobs, what attracts you to it, talent, values and qualities, care, passion, causes and minimum salary
*Chapter 4*
• Try out branching projects
• Conversational analysis (Follow people whose work you love 3 days minimum, Ask what gives them flow (not sufficient on its own but necessary))
• Radical sabbatical
*Chapter 5*
*FLOW+ MEANING+ FREEDOM* = Dream Job
• Autonomy in work
• Need for Idleness, free from work ethic
• _Bertrand Russel_ "In praise of Idleness" 4h work day
• Security and Faustian Bargain (trade soul for wordly stuff)
• Career doesn't necessarily have to be about money
• Go for second hand
• Reduce 1/2 money on what you spent previous month on your "wants"
*Chapter 6*
• Men haven't stepped up to the level of women's emancipation
• Have it all in different stages of life
• Vocation/Mission helps you wake up each morning from your bed
"DON'T WAIT FOR EPIPHANIES"
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