Three talks to find deeper meaning at work life (that’s 35%-45% of your life btw)
In the last week, total up time spent at work, commute to work and work activities after office hours.
Even with conservative estimates, for most of us that would be 35% to 45% of our waking hours. That’s a lot! We sure as hell can’t view work as just a means to pay the bills.
So how do we get more out of our work-life than just the monthly paycheck?
Here are three great talks that help. Happy self-discovery!
Keep Exploring
At work, there are high value activities that we feel most engaged in and also the low value soul sucking thankless ones. Guess the trick is to actively seek out the former.
Steve Jobs in his commencement address at Stanford talks on
importance of finding passion at work.
PS: Doesn’t always have to involve a grand purpose like say reinventing the phone. :)
Try New Things
Ever felt months just whiz by? Another year has flow by and not much has changed?
Here is a deceptively simple yet powerful idea. Also applies at work.
Kill the Excuses
A lot of the time the biggest obstacles are the excuses we create (In hindsight, my journal has tons of lame ones).
Larry Smith in a hilarious TED talk outlines the excuses we give ourselves.
