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Your Career: What Important Thing You Forgot To Consider In Choosing Your Work
What would you struggle for?
Not what would you dream about and would live for, but what would you work hard for, be uncomfortable for and suffer for?
Mark Manson, author of the New-York Times Bestseller “The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck”, asks this question at the beginning of his book and it is a far better way to think about it than what most other Self-Improvement Experts ask you to think about.
Most people encourage you to think about your dreams, your goals, your aspirations and desires, but no one talks about the struggle towards that.
Sure, the goal is great to have and achieving your dreams will feel amazing, but what about the path there?
What career would you struggle for 40 hours a week for?
What career would you brave annoying coworkers and employers for?
What career would you allow to take up 40+ years of your life?
When you think about it this way things get a lot less positive, but also a lot more real.
It’s not just about the money or the fun things but about bearing the negatives.
If you can find a career that would make all of this seem worth it, then you pick…
