How Can People Get Better
success but I think there's pretty
significant research showing that people are often actually reacting to their
trajectory as much as their act actual
absolute performance level that the feeling of improvement the feeling of moving on it gives them some sense of fulfillment right and eventually obviously will get them to to a higher level and so I think really this is for people who are interested in how do I get off sort of my plateaus going forward and viewing it as as a lifelong
journey as opposed to trying to Peak
when they're 12 right it turns out that the way to make the best 20-year-old
30-year old 40-year-old is not the
same as the way to make the best 10-year-old is is there sort of a tie here
with the
subject of just happiness and how to
live a happy life fulfillment for sure yeah those aren't exactly the same but
The Connection Between
Fulfillment And Growth
they're important so so to think about this in a career development perspective right I think probably the most interesting research on fulfillment in careers was this project at Harvard called the Darkhorse project and this was looking at how do people find a lot of these people were very financially successful and all that stuff but the dependent variable was fulfillment okay sense fulfillment and
when people would come in for sort of an orientation in this study they would say things to the researchers like you know I started off doing this one thing I was Medical School whatever didn't really fit me so I went over to this
other thing and I I learned I was
good at something I didn't expect so then I went this other direction and you
know I
came don't tell people to do what I
did because like I came out of nowhere and the large majority of people that
was
their story that's why became named
the Darkhorse project Darkhorse is this expression that means coming out of
nowhere and that the norm in this day
and age was that people who found
fulfillment would travel this kind of zigzagging path where they would learn
maybe I'm good at something or bad
at something that I didn't expect maybe I'm interested in something I didn't
expect and they would keep pivoting and they
would say instead of saying you know here's this person younger than me who has more than me they'd say here's who I am right now here are my skills and interests here are the opportunities in front of me uh I'm going to try this one
and maybe I'll change a year from
now because I will have learned something about myself and they keep doing
those pivots throughout their career
throughout their career until they
achieve what Economist call better match quality that's the degree of fit
between someone's interests and abilities and
the work that they do turns out to be extremely important for both your performance and and sense of fulfillment and your apparent grit if you want to talk about that so so just on that before we move on to grip the does what
advice does that then mean you would
give to a young person at the start of their career that's thinking about how
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