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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Elizabeth Gilbert on Careers vs Jobs

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Business, Careers

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hello Monday hops in the way-back machine to revisit one of our very first episodes. Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert (EAT PRAY LOVE, BIG MAGIC, CITY OF GIRLS) shares her perspective on the nature of work and challenges Jessi on the idea that people should have careers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Michael Kavnat, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.

0:04.0

The show is a master class in better living from some of the smartest writers around.

0:08.0

Every morning, Monday through Friday, we'll serve up a quick 10 minute lesson on how to strengthen your relationships,

0:14.8

supercharge your creativity, boost your productivity, and more.

0:18.8

Follow the next big idea daily wherever you get your podcasts.

0:29.0

Hey, it's Jesse, and today's President's Day, which means that a lot of us in the US are off. Yay! We've been recording a ton this month.

0:32.0

I can't wait to share that work with you and we'll be back next week with an all new episode.

0:36.3

But we're taking this week to dip into the archives. We're going all the way back to my second episode which was with Elizabeth Gilbert the author of Eat Pray Love.

0:45.6

I was really new at podcasting and you'll hear that.

0:49.8

I was also really nervous to talk to Liz and you'll hear that too. She is just an author I really respect and admire.

0:56.0

But this episode it was everything to me.

0:59.0

Here I was making the show about the future of work and she blew a hole through my

1:04.1

assumption that we need careers at all. Why have a career? She kind of asked. Why not

1:10.4

just have a job and do the thing you love?

1:13.2

You'll hear a couple of prompts to give us feedback.

1:15.4

This is an older episode, but we'd still really love to hear from you.

1:19.6

Hope you enjoy it and see you next week. From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill,

1:26.0

and this is Hello Monday,

1:28.0

a show where I investigate how we're changing the nature of work

1:31.0

and how that work is changing us.

1:34.0

For those of us who went to college, there's this assumption that our profession is more than

1:38.5

just a way to pay the bills.

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