Career Decline Isn't Inevitable

Worklife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As we age, we often feel like the clock starts ticking on our careers. But there are ways to sustain—and even gain—excellence over time. Meet a musician whose career ended too soon, and an entrepreneur and a social media star who defied the stereotypes on professional decline. They illuminate steps that fuel great second and third acts.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.2	Starting when I was eight or nine years old, I literally wanted to be the greatest French
0:12.4	horn player in the world.
0:14.2	That was what I always wanted to do.
0:15.7	That was my whole life dream.
0:17.9	What was behind that?
0:19.2	I was ambitious.
0:20.5	I wanted to play for a lot of people.
0:23.1	And I guess that was just simply expressed in the only thing that I really knew how to
0:26.8	do.
0:27.8	I really cared about, which was music.
0:31.7	Arthur Brooks was a natural.
0:33.8	He could read music before he could actually read.
0:37.0	He played in youth orchestras as a kid, prestigious ones.
0:40.5	Eventually, he dropped out of college to go on tour.
0:43.3	I went on the road playing classical music.
0:45.7	I did that for six years.
0:47.2	I saw all 50 states from the back of a van.
0:50.6	Arthur recorded an album that played on classical radio stations across the country.
0:55.5	But then something started to change.
0:58.1	I realized about age 21 that things were starting to go south.
1:03.7	And I couldn't explain it.
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