http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/contributing-through-your-career/ Personal Development for Smart People Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:24:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/contributing-through-your-career/#comment-63859 Love Bhakti #15: The Light Within « The Blooming Heart Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:19:13 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/contributing-through-your-career/#comment-63859 [...] Steve Pavlina has a thought-provoking article on contributing to the world through your career that is a terrific take on what I’m talking about here. One of the difficulties many of us encounter, I think, is that we are taught to undervalue our gifts. In an unhappy culture it becomes necessary to cut each other down out of the fear of what it might mean for us if everyone around us took the risks and lived their love. Those with artistic gifts or talents that are equally difficult to measure in monetary/hierarchical terms are particularly discouraged from trying to make a life out of them. They aren’t “real” or “practical” (or dreary?) enough. Just to be safe, we should get a “safe” career. [...] […] Steve Pavlina has a thought-provoking article on contributing to the world through your career that is a terrific take on what I’m talking about here. One of the difficulties many of us encounter, I think, is that we are taught to undervalue our gifts. In an unhappy culture it becomes necessary to cut each other down out of the fear of what it might mean for us if everyone around us took the risks and lived their love. Those with artistic gifts or talents that are equally difficult to measure in monetary/hierarchical terms are particularly discouraged from trying to make a life out of them. They aren’t “real” or “practical” (or dreary?) enough. Just to be safe, we should get a “safe” career. […]

]]> http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/contributing-through-your-career/#comment-48832 Errant Thoughts » Blog Archive » Making a difference in the world Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:19:25 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/contributing-through-your-career/#comment-48832 [...] I happened to stumble across Steve Pavlina’s blog post on Contributing through Your Career. His basic thesis is that most people feel driven to make some sort of difference in the world, and that if you do it on the side instead of through your career, it isn’t as fulfilling as it might be otherwise. I think he does have a point. [...] […] I happened to stumble across Steve Pavlina’s blog post on Contributing through Your Career. His basic thesis is that most people feel driven to make some sort of difference in the world, and that if you do it on the side instead of through your career, it isn’t as fulfilling as it might be otherwise. I think he does have a point. […]

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