The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great aspirations of our age. We face competing claims for money and status while doing something meaningful and in tune with our talents. Today’s world of work is completely different from anything that’s gone before. Automation is everywhere. There are completely new kinds of jobs. Fresh new ways to define success. How do you succeed in a job market that’s changing by the day?

1. Entrepreneurship
Finding Fulfilling Work

2. Taking the Leap
• Dan Pink
• Kaufman Fast Trac
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4. How to find fulfilling work
• School of Life
• How to find fulfilling
work
• Roman Krznaric
• RomanKrznaric.com

5. How to find fulfilling work
The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great
aspirations of our age. We face competing
claims for money and status while doing
something meaningful and in tune with our
talents.

6. How do we want our days to look?
We are called on to
negotiate the labyrinth of
choices,
• overcoming the fear of
change and failure, and
• finding a career that lets
us thrive.

7. The Economist
Navigating Change
Today’s world of work is
completely different from
anything that’s gone
before. Automation is
everywhere. There are
completely new kinds of
jobs. Fresh new ways to
define success. How do
you succeed in a job
market that’s changing by
the day?

8. Learning and Earning
• Lifelong learning is
becoming an economic
imperative
• Technological change
demands stronger and
more continuous
connections between
education and
employment, says
Andrew Palmer. The faint
outlines of such a system
are now emerging

9. The "why”
• Simon Sinek
• TED Talk
• Books
• Start with Why

11. Transcendence
• Maslow hierarchy of
needs add:
• Transcendence
• Fulfilling work
• To lead; provide the
opportunity for fulfilling
work.

12. I can’t get no…
• Sam Johnson dictionary
1755; no fulfillment
• Job dissatisfaction
• End of 'job for life'
• Gig economy
• Technology disruption

13. Job Security
• Choosing a career:
• Robots, AI, automation
• Disruption
• Software eating
industries
• Redundant

14. Yearning; expectations
• Mid life crises

15. Extrinsic Factors
• Money
• Status
• Fame
• Adulation
• Respect

16. Intrinsic Factors
• Values
• Talents
• Passion
• Meaning
• Billionaire: help a billion
people

17. Work
• Work is a necessary evil
to be avoided. Twain
• Grin and bear it
• Stoicism
• Utopianism
• Bible
• Protestant work ethic
• Reward in the next life
• Buddhism life is suffering

19. Humanism
• The human use of human
beings
• Norbert Wiener
• Post war sensibility
• Renaissance
• Tradition of self
expression
• Alberti
• Shaping your own identity
and destiny
• Self expression

20. Just do it

21. nasty, brutish and short
• Slave
• Surfdom
• Women
• 14 hour days
• Coal mine
• Textile mills
• Education
• Arbriet macht frei

22. Relationship to work
• Willie Lowman
• Convention
• 60s liberation
• Meaning
• Flow
• Freedom
• Balance
• Sleep

23. Tradeoffs and choices
• High achiever
specialized field
• Wide achiever
• Generalist vs. specialist
• Time vs. money
• 4 hour work week
• Tim Ferriss

24. Hero of your story
• Meticulous planning
• Plan then implement
• Act first; reflect later
• Ready, fire, aim
• Experiment and iterate
• Radical sabbatical
• Odyssey
• Pilgrimage. Altucher
• Mythologize yourself and
your story

25. Choice
• Decisions
• Freedom
• Anxiety is the dizziness
of freedom
• Education
• Talent
• Sports
• Rock star

26. Limitations
• Family tree limits
• My grandpa 4th grade
• My dad, Great
Depression then WWII;
high school after the
war
• Lisa's grandma piano for
silent film

27. Too much choice = anxiety
• The paradox of choice
• Barry Schwartz
• The grass is always
greener
• Fomo
• Lower expectations
• Analysis paralysis
• Perfection is the enemy
Good enough
• Constraints can be freeing

28. Status
• Protestant work ethic
• Bound by legacy
• Sunk costs
• Work identity
• Status
• Belonging
• Legitimacy
• "So what do you do?"
• Cocktail party question

29. Ennui
• Martin Seligman
• Hedonic treadmill
• Abundance:
• Emotional
• Material
• Fear
• Amos Tversky and
Daniel Kahneman
• Negative bias
• The hedonic treadmill,
also known as hedonic
adaptation, is the
observed tendency of
humans to quickly
return to a relatively
stable level of
happiness despite
major positive or
negative events or life
changes.

30. Design Thinking
• More playful
experimental mode of
being
• Do then think instead of
Think then do
• Karl Mannheim
• Weltanschauung
• World view
• How your world view
impacts your life, choices
and destiny

31. Goethe
Then indecision brings its
own delays,
And days are lost
lamenting over lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize
this very minute;
What you can do, or
dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.

33. Flow
• Flow as indicator of life
satisfaction and
happiness.
• Challenge
• Creativity
• Purpose
• Freedom
• Strategies for the art of
living
• Creative idling
• Simple living

34. Simplify
• Thoreau
• Walden
• "A man is rich in
proportion to the number
of things he can afford to
let alone."
• Picasso:
• "Art is the elimination of
the unnecessary."
• Mies Van Der Roe
• Less is more.

36. Just do it
• Generous work done
with good intentions.
• EF Schumacher
• Small is beautiful
• Vocation
• Horace. Odes
• Carpe diem
• Hillel
• If not now, when?

38. Think and Grow Rich