In Praise of the Meandering Career

Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance, b... See more

Once you understand the concept of emergent and deliberate strategy, you’ll know that if you’ve yet to find something that really works in your career, expecting to have a clear vision of where your life will take you is just wasting time. Even worse, it may actually close your mind to unexpected opportunities. While you are still figuring out your

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Most people have an acute sense of the challenges that lay ahead. They can predict the criticism they’ll face and the insecurity they’ll feel. This is why many, including me, refuse the “call to adventure” as long as possible. Before quitting my job, I spent several years critiquing the corporate world from within, convinced I could help “fix” it.

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