- The best way to get flexible, interesting work is to be great at something, and let everyone know your focus, according to research by Ezra Zuckerman, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This doesn't mean being great at climbing the corporate ladder or great at working tons of hours to make partner at a law firm that will dump you. This means getting great at something because, according to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor of psychology at Claremont University and author of the book Flow, we feel best when we are doing work at a high level of competence. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/07/22/choose-a-career-path-that-makes-you-scared-of-failure/
- Most of what makes people great at something is not raw talent but how hard they work at it, according to research by Steven Levitt, economist at University of Chicago and author of the book Freakonomics. So choose to do something you are excited enough about to work very hard at it, and keep testing things until something grabs you.
- Don’t tell me you can’t decide. Everyone knows where they want to go next. Even if it’s probably wrong, you know, right now, where you’re leaning. So write to that. Sure, it might change, but you need to commit to something, right now. Each day you have to wake up and do something. So you have to guess where to aim. We are all just guessing. Make your best guess and keep going in that direction until you find something else. And your blog is an expression of that commitment to yourself to have direction, even as you doubt it.
- chef! pastry or vegetarian
- pro knitter
- track star (make running my job? hell yes!)
- rock star
- Majora Carter
- maybe I will work for a magazine.
- Rolling Stone, of course, as a music critic. Or Paste, or Spin, or something.
- Or perhaps it will be an environmental magazine, one devoted to sharing ways of changing our lifestyles and defining our cultural values. That would be cool. I'm thinking of my friend Tyler's job as a writing assistant at grist. Or maybe I could write for Orion? I've got all these ideas coming out of my ears that I want to share with the world, and who better to write them than me?
- "write for change"?
- create bike/pedestrian paths for indianapolis because I love my home city and think it needs to change its heart
- I could be a peace recruiter. getting good kids into public schools, bad kids into college.
- peace learning center in eagle creek park (dream job)
oct 26 2009 ∞
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