Create a Career You Love: Invest in Your Future

Key insights

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  Professor Grace Lorden suggests focusing on tasks rather than titles when searching for a fulfilling career.
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  Life is a picture, but we live in individual pixels, so it's important to focus on the day-to-day tasks of a job when trying to find a career you genuinely love.
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  Defining your ideal career involves identifying the specific tasks and activities that you enjoy and want to do, rather than just focusing on a job title.
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  Auditing your time and writing down whether or not you enjoy the tasks you're doing can help you move towards a career that you actually enjoy.
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  Investing in activities that take us closer to a career we enjoy can compound over time, just like investing money for our pensions.
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  Investing just 13 minutes a day in developing skills can compound over time and lead to a fulfilling career.
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  Avoid committing to an expensive master's program and use cheap or free resources to learn, as traditional qualifications may not be as valuable as real entrepreneurial experience.
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  Use the grid search technique to figure out what activities you enjoy and see whether the actions you're taking are moving you closer to your dream career.