Практика английского по видео: How to Find Fulfilling Work
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- The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just painfully necessary is a strikingly recent invention.0:01
- Opened Dr Johnson's celebrated dictionary published in 1755 and the word fulfilment doesn't even appear.0:09
- Nowadays in the prosperous world, we don't only expect to obtain money through our labour, we also, to a greater or lesser extent, expect to find meaning and satisfaction.0:16
- It's a big ask and helps to explain why so many of us have career crises, often on a Sunday evening as the sun begins to set.0:26
- To help us on the quest for fulfilling work, here are six useful ideas.0:34
- Firstly, accept that being confused about careers is perfectly normal.0:38
- In the pre -industrial world, there were at most some two thousand different trades out there.0:43
- Nowadays, there are estimated to be half a million different options.0:48
- The result, we can become so anxious about making the wrong choice, we end up making no choice at all.0:52
- Psychologists call this the paradox of choice, paralysis stemming from too many options.0:57
- We should acknowledge that confusion is natural and fear entirely normal, but let neither of these scupper our chances forever.1:02
- Secondly, know yourself.1:10
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- It's the oldest philosophical recommendation and is of particular relevance to careers.1:12
- For 99 % of us, knowing what we want to do doesn't arise spontaneously, like for example knowing what to eat.1:17
- Most of us don't have a calling, we don't hear a commanding godlike voice directing us to accountancy or packaging and distribution.1:24
- That isn't to say we don't have tastes or inclinations, we just don't know them clearly enough, which is a perilous position to be in, as not having a plan1:31
- quickly puts us at the mercy of those who do have one.1:38
- We only catch glimpses, little hints of our tastes, so what we have to do is learn to pick up on their faint sounds.1:42
- Start by parking any concerns for money for a time, financial panic too often kills all dialogue with the more authentic, passionate sides of one's nature.1:48
- Write down, without being too logical or analytical about it, everything you've ever enjoyed doing or making, which might include building a tree house or sorting out the winter clothes,1:57
- the weirder and more offbeat the list the better.2:06
- In the long and confused tangle that follows, there will somewhere be the shape of an ideal future working self, but it'll be very messed up and in need of2:09
- being analysed thoroughly.2:17
- That's where philosophy comes in.2:19
- Philosophy is the art of clearing up and demanding logic of our first thoughts.2:21
- Thirdly, think a lot.2:26
- If it might take a couple of days, even a week, to choose a new car, it could fairly take a year or more of sustained daily reflection to start2:28
- to identify a career that fits.2:35
- We tend to feel guilty about this, imagining we're being self -indulgent, far from it.2:37
- We may need to empty every weekend for months to sort out the biggest conundrum of our lives.2:42
- To make sure we don't continue to spend the rest of our lives trapped in a job unwittingly chosen for us by our unknowing 16 year old selves, we need2:46
- to be properly generous about the amount of time we'll need to give this.2:54
- Fourthly, try something.2:58
- It's tempting to imagine we'll be able to work out the shape of the workplace and of our own characters simply through a pure process of reflection, but we need3:00
- data and we only understand ourselves and others by colliding with the real world in the process getting to know both it and our own natures.3:08
- We need to take small, non -irrevocable steps to gather information, for example by shadowing, interning or volunteering.3:16
- We mustn't think we always have to resign on Monday.3:23
- We can investigate our futures through branching projects on the side of existing jobs.3:25
- Five, reflect on what makes people unhappy.3:30
- Every successful business is at heart an attempt to solve someone else's problem.3:34
- The bigger and more urgent the problem, the greater the opportunity.3:38
- To flex your entrepreneurial muscles, consider an average day and everything in it that might make someone unhappy, from losing the house keys to finding the food a little greasy3:42
- to arguing yet again with their spouse.3:50
- Each of these is a business opportunity waiting to be exploited.3:53
- It's a chance for us to serve, which is what work really is.3:57
- It's easy to imagine that everything's been done and tried.4:00
- Nonsense.4:03
- We're unhappy enough for capitalism to have many more centuries of invention and creativity to it.4:04
- Six, be confident.4:10
- So many bad self -help books are about confidence.4:12
- It can be tempting to dismiss the whole topic as nonsense, but in a peculiar and rather humbling way, it truly does seem as if the difference between success and4:14
- failure is sometimes nothing less than the courage to give it a go.4:22
- The ability to imagine oneself into a role, to surmise one doesn't need to ask anyone for permission.4:26
- That many of the top positions simply belong to those who dare to boldly ask for them.4:31
- A lack of confidence is at heart a misunderstanding of the way the world works.4:36
- It's an internalised feudalism which imagines that only certain people, but not oneself, have the right, preordained to get certain things.4:40
- It isn't true, as we know, a lot more is possible than we might think at our moments of timidity and doubt.4:48
- That's the start of the path towards a job we won't regret on our deathbeds, which should always be the ultimate criterion.4:54
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