http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polarity-and-your-career/ Personal Development for Smart People Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polarity-and-your-career/#comment-74938 Are Darkworkers Evil? Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:33:57 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polarity-and-your-career/#comment-74938 [...] them fall from grace, taken down by whistleblowers with lightworker tendencies or perhaps undone by Darkworker Syndrome. Then we ask incredulously, “How could someone do such a [...] […] them fall from grace, taken down by whistleblowers with lightworker tendencies or perhaps undone by Darkworker Syndrome. Then we ask incredulously, “How could someone do such a […]

]]> http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polarity-and-your-career/#comment-33227 Oh, what to do with my life? | MarieCasas.com Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:55:22 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polarity-and-your-career/#comment-33227 [...] That’s what’s been missing! In finance as a support service, whatever effort I was giving only benefits the internal customer, then it’s diluted from him to all the other stakeholders. (They should teach this in ORIENT3 career counseling class.) Many people get by never really deciding whether they want to give, give, give or to take, take, take. Let’s say writers. In a perfectly polarized world, Writer A is driven to create beautiful stories - and then he’s compensated some way. Conversely, Writer B wants to gain prestige and get fees or royalties - so he writes. What happens when Writer A = Writer B? Now that’s messed up. You don’t know which motivation is driving what effort but the writer will most likely get by. This is what happens ordinarily. [...] […] That’s what’s been missing! In finance as a support service, whatever effort I was giving only benefits the internal customer, then it’s diluted from him to all the other stakeholders. (They should teach this in ORIENT3 career counseling class.) Many people get by never really deciding whether they want to give, give, give or to take, take, take. Let’s say writers. In a perfectly polarized world, Writer A is driven to create beautiful stories - and then he’s compensated some way. Conversely, Writer B wants to gain prestige and get fees or royalties - so he writes. What happens when Writer A = Writer B? Now that’s messed up. You don’t know which motivation is driving what effort but the writer will most likely get by. This is what happens ordinarily. […]

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