#556: How to Find Your Calling in Life

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nearly everyone has experienced the sense of being nudged and prompted to take certain actions. These intuitive hints can spur us to do big things like change jobs, or smaller things like text a friend. My guest today says that these are callings, and that if we don't answer them, they'll continue to rememerge and can haunt us til the day we die. His name is Gregg Levoy and he's the author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life. We begin our conversation discussing what exactly a calling is and why it's not necessarily the same thing as a vocation. Gregg then shares how callings come to people, why they're sometimes unpleasant and challenging, and what you can do to attune yourself to their signals. Gregg then shares different ways people go about figuring out their calling, including rites of passage, traveling, art, and community. We get into how you figure out if something you think is a calling is actually a calling or not, and the idea that while every calling demands a response, that response can be negotiated. We end our conversation discussing what happens when your calling ends in what looks like failure. Get the show notes at aom.is/callings.

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0:00.0	I'm Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:11.1	Nearly everyone has experienced the sense of being nudged and prompted to take certain
0:15.0	actions.
0:16.0	These intuitive hints can spur us to do big things like change jobs or smaller things like
0:19.6	text-to-front.
0:20.6	My guest today says these nudges are callings and if we don't answer them, they'll continue
0:24.6	to reemerge and can haunt us till the day we die.
0:27.1	His name is Greg LaVoy and he's the author of callings, finding and following authentic
0:30.9	life.
0:31.9	We begin our conversation discussing what exactly a calling is, why it's not necessarily
0:35.0	the same thing as a vocation.
0:36.8	Greg then shares how callings come to people, why they're sometimes unpleasant and challenging,
0:40.9	and what you can do to attune yourself to their signals.
0:43.4	Greg then shares different ways people go about finding their calling, including rights
0:46.5	of passages, traveling, art and community.
0:48.8	We get into how you can figure out if something you think is a calling is actually a calling,
0:52.4	and the idea that while every calling demands a response, that response can be negotiated.
0:56.3	The inter-conversation is discussing what happens when your calling ends with looks like
0:59.8	failure.
1:00.8	After the show is over, check out our show notes at a-wim.is slash callings.
1:04.5	Greg joins me now via clearcast.io.
1:14.6	Greg LaVoy, welcome to the show.
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