Moment 68 - Do This If You Don’t Like Your Job: Marcus Buckingham

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

Marcus Buckingham, is one of the world's most in-demand career experts and the author of several best-selling business books focusing on strengths versus weaknesses, how to take feedback, how to love your work and identify leadership. In this moment I talk to Marcus about how we are supposed to build a great career that we love.

The three main question points we all ask ourselves when we are in a working role is the ‘who’, the ‘what’ and the ‘why’. The ‘why’ is so important to think about - why are you doing doing what you are currently doing, why do you believe in the purpose of what you are doing? The ‘who’ is also crucial. Working with people you like, being in a great team, and amongst inspiring people plays a powerful role in our work. But for Marcus, the ‘what’ trumps the ‘who and ‘why’. What are the activities and roles you are actually doing? What do you love about them?

Marcus has a theory about the different threads our days are made up of. These threads ultimately create the fabric of a work day; layers, structures, colours, textures, which can be interpreted into feelings, highs, lows, loves and loathes. The most successful people are able to identify what threads work well for them. In order for this to happen, we need an early framework and a sense of shared understanding about what we naturally lean into, our passions and skills. If we start early on the right threads from a younger age, we will be able to create a career that we love.

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Marcus:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You talked about, I think I don't know if this was before we start recording, but this,
0:07.0	the curse of, you know, I remember a conversation I had with a young lady who was a lawyer, and
0:13.0	she was clearly dissatisfied in her job.
0:16.1	And it transpired that the reason she was a lawyer is because that's what she had been
0:20.1	good at in terms of A levels, then university, and also her mum and dad had said, like,
0:25.9	that's a good job.
0:26.9	And she was almost on the verge of a midlife crisis when she spoke to me because she was
0:31.9	so good at this thing that it kind of dragged her off into the future, and she was now
0:36.8	that, that was her identity.
0:38.8	So many people listening to this now will resonate with that in various ways.
0:41.4	They would have become a banker because their parents were bankers and they were really
0:45.4	good at maths.
0:47.4	What have you found out about those people, their satisfaction, and really what they should
0:51.8	be doing, I guess, is there something else they should be doing instead?
0:55.0	Because should we be dragged by our competence and something?
0:58.8	Well, no, as we talked about before, I mean, competence can be a devilish curse because
1:06.0	you can get the A's and hate the work.
1:08.3	You can get high performance, but actually hate the activities.
1:12.8	For anyone, if they want a really great career, the why is importantly, to think about,
1:19.3	do you really believe in the purpose of what you're doing?
1:21.5	That's important, no question.
1:22.8	The who is important, no question, if you hate the people you're working with, that's
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