The Fine Art of Finding Your Calling, With Jeff Goins
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2015
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
"Your activity needs to flow from your identity."
It seems that A LOT of people struggle with the question, "What should I do with my life?"
So I was really interested to have a conversation with today's guest, Jeff Goins, because that very question is at the heart of his new book, The Art of Work.
Interestingly, he ended up re-writing entire book after realizing he had sanitized his own story of becoming a writer, and needed to find and share a deeper set of truths.
In this conversation, we also talk about the idea of polymaths - multi-talented people - and what a "portfolio life" is.
If you've ever wondered what your calling is (and if you have one), you'll find this episode with Jeff Goins very interesting.
Some questions I ask:
- How do you define vocation?
- Is there just one purpose for each of us to accomplish in life?
- What is a "portfolio life"?
- Can you master multiple talents? Or just practice them?
- What do you think about leaving a legacy?
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe finding your calling, discovering your purpose isn't about getting everything |
| 0:08.1 | that you thought you wanted in life. |
| 0:10.1 | Maybe it's really about being open to the shifts and turns and unexpected twists and |
| 0:16.0 | the plot of our life story that happened along the way and responding to it in the right |
| 0:21.7 | way. |
| 0:24.5 | So how do you know that you're doing the work that you're, quote, meant to do? |
| 0:32.2 | Is there even something that you're meant to do? |
| 0:34.4 | We get so freaked out by the thought of us toiling away and spending our entire lives |
| 0:40.4 | doing something, spending the vast majority of our waking hours doing something that's |
| 0:45.5 | the wrong thing? |
| 0:48.2 | Is that a legit question? |
| 0:50.3 | Is there a right thing and a wrong thing? |
| 0:52.3 | Is there work that we're meant to do? |
| 0:55.0 | Is there a calling or a vocation or a single thing that we should be searching for? |
| 1:00.8 | Well, that's one of the things that we explore in today's conversation with entrepreneur |
| 1:07.8 | and author Jeff Goins. |
| 1:10.0 | And he's gone pretty deep into this question in a provocative new book called The Art of |
| 1:15.8 | Work. |
| 1:16.8 | And we're going to go into it as well. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm Jonathan Fields. |
| 1:20.7 | This is Good Life Project. |
| 1:26.1 | Fancy a fever tree and vodka. |
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