“Just follow your passion and everything will work itself out…”
This popular narrative (especially amongst certain life coach tribes) is quite misleading and can lead to wrongly rejecting certain career paths or choices.
We tend to experience career transitions as part of our adult development, these are perfectly normal but at the time can seem quite disconcerting.
In this episode I take some of the concepts from Cal Newport's book 'So Good They Can't Ignore You' to take the chance out of how to build work we love. So assuming you are not ethically at odds with your work, here’s your blueprint for building work you love, regardless of what you do!
(04:36) Building a career that you love
(05:49) 1) Career Capital
(08:35) 2) Fundamental Psychological Elements
(10:59) 3) The lifestyle you wish to have
(12:20) The Story of 2 Marketers - a cautionary tale
(14:19) Listener dilemma on next steps
