How To Find Meaningful Work in a Rapidly Changing World | Bruce Feiler
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Feiler also discusses why we no longer live linear lives, letting go of the idea of having a career, and redefining success.
Bruce Feiler is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including Life Is in the Transitions, The Secrets of Happy Families, and Council of Dads. His three TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times, and he teaches the TED Course How to Master Life Transitions. His latest book is called The Search.
In this episode we talk about:
- How Feiler went from being a guy whose early work focused on spirituality to now focusing on work
- How historically work was something that was supposed to make you unhappy. And how Millennials and Gen Z have helped change that
- What is a workquake?
- Why the majority of us actually have 5 jobs— what those are and why they matter
- What is a meaning audit?
- The best single question you can ask yourself to write your own story of success
- And the historical figures who helped define how we think about success
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast, your host, your boy Dan Harris. |
| 0:10.6 | Hey, hey, how are we doing everybody? |
| 0:22.3 | Most people hate their jobs, that's according to the data. |
| 0:26.6 | Even if you love your job as I happen to do, it can still be a titanic |
| 0:29.8 | pain in the ass. |
| 0:30.8 | It can be a source of stress, burnout, social comparison. |
| 0:33.9 | It can bring up unexamined fear and greed. |
| 0:37.0 | So how do we infuse this part of our lives work with meaning and happiness? |
| 0:42.3 | My guest today argues that work is changing in rapid and fascinating ways. |
| 0:47.3 | People used to have clear career paths, but that is no longer the case according to my |
| 0:50.9 | guest. |
| 0:51.9 | Life is non-linear, he says. |
| 0:53.6 | This can be scary and confusing, but it's also an opportunity to flip the script to control |
| 0:57.3 | your own destiny. |
| 0:59.0 | Bruce Filer is the author of Seven New York Times Best Sellers, including Life is in the |
| 1:02.5 | Transitions, which he came on this show not long ago to discuss. |
| 1:06.6 | He's got a new book, which is why he's back on the show. |
| 1:09.2 | The new book is called The Search, Finding Meaningful Work, in a post-career world. |
| 1:14.6 | In this conversation we talk about how Bruce went from being a guy whose early work focused |
| 1:19.0 | on spirituality. |
| 1:20.0 | In fact, his first book was called Walking the Bible. |
| 1:23.1 | How did he go from that to now focusing on work? |
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