What Should You Do With Your Life? | Suzy Welch

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Are you living by default or by design? A provocative question from an NYU business professor.

Suzy Welch is an award-winning NYU Stern School of Business professor, acclaimed management researcher, and New York Times best-selling author, most recently with “Becoming You: A Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career.”

In this episode we talk about:

The distinction between purpose and happiness
What values actually are––and why it’s so hard for people to name their own
15 of the most significant core values
The importance of knowing how other people experience your personality
Tools for envisioning your desired future
Why knowing your passion is not enough
And much more

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.8	Hello, everybody. How we doing? Today we're going to talk about what you should do with your life.
0:23.6	That may sound funny at first, especially if you're a grown-ass person with a job, maybe a partner, maybe some kids.
0:29.7	But here's the question. Are you living by design or by default? Or maybe you did live by design for many years, and now whether you know it or not,
0:39.1	the old plans are running out of juice. In other words, this question, what should I do with my life,
0:44.9	is not really just for young people, although it can be especially acute for them, of course.
0:50.3	But really, it's for anybody at any stage of life. It's incredibly important to ask yourself,, am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing? Am I doing what I want to be doing? And with the people with whom I want to be doing it. However, for many of us, it's not just enough to ask ourselves this question. We need a system, a rigorous one, to help us deliver some answers, which is where my guest today comes in.
1:11.4	Susie Welch teaches one of the most popular courses at the NYU Stern School of Business.
1:16.0	It's called Becoming You, which is also the name of her book.
1:19.7	In this conversation, we talk about the distinction between purpose and happiness,
1:24.7	what values are and why it's so important to name your values, the 15 most
1:30.6	significant core values, the importance of knowing how other people experience you and your
1:37.5	personality, tools for envisioning your desired future, and why knowing what you're passionate
1:42.5	about is not enough, and much more. This episode is
1:46.7	part of the reset series. Every week this month, we're talking about how to reset one aspect
1:52.1	of your life. Week one was about your nervous system. Week two focused on resetting your
1:56.8	relationships with an emphasis on how you talk to yourself. This week, Susie's kicking us off.
2:01.8	It's all about resetting your life and your career. Wednesday, it's Philip Moffitt, and then we'll have a
2:06.1	special Friday episode with Matthew McConaughey. As always, this episode comes with a bespoke,
2:11.6	guided meditation. This one is all about helping you slow down in the right way so that you can
2:17.0	get a sense of what your values actually are.
2:19.3	This is a conversation most people do not have with themselves. And this meditation comes from
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