How to future-proof your career? (with Dorie Clark)
How to Be a Better Human
TED
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hustle culture, burnout, “toxic productivity.” Does today’s fast-paced world ever leave you feeling rushed? Dorie Clark teaches executive education at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and at Columbia Business School. In today’s episode, she talks about the importance of “playing the long-game”-- the idea that when it comes to planning for your enduring future success, it might be better to prioritize long-term payoff above overnight “wins.” Dorie discusses how pressure in our culture pushes us toward doing what’s quick and easy in the moment and helps us value the slow burn of persistence and effort. A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can find more about Dorie at dorieclark.com
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Chris Duffy. |
| 0:12.0 | Navigating a career and figuring out how to make money and pay the bills, |
| 0:16.0 | all of that would be a lot easier if we could just see the future. |
| 0:19.0 | But since we can't, or at least I can't, |
| 0:22.0 | all sorts of unexpected things end up happening in our careers. |
| 0:25.3 | We can get fired, the path that we thought looks so promising can all of a sudden turn out to be a dead end, |
| 0:31.3 | or any number of other career challenges can come up. |
| 0:34.6 | One small example is for me, I love performing in front of live audiences, and for years that was |
| 0:39.9 | something that I did all the time. |
| 0:41.4 | It was a big part of my career. |
| 0:43.0 | But now, with COVID, it seems like truly the worst idea possible to go down into a crowded, |
| 0:48.7 | unventilated basement and hope that a big group of strangers coughs towards me. |
| 0:53.0 | Right? Like if no one laughs at any of my jokes, that's no longer bombing. |
| 0:56.4 | That's actually just giving the most COVID-safe performance I can possibly give. |
| 1:00.0 | Absolute silence. |
| 1:01.8 | My point being that when the rug gets pulled out from under you and you're |
| 1:04.9 | dealing with the unexpected, what do you do? It is so easy to focus on the short term. But it's |
| 1:10.7 | important to consider it a long term. That is something that I learned from today's guest, author Dory Clark. |
| 1:15.8 | She very convincingly argues that even when things are in constant flux like they are right now, |
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