The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

organizations don’t succeed in spite of failure; they succeed because of it. In the case of Groupon, a ...

benefit if you are willing. Einstein used his menial job to conduct “thought experiments.” Franklin t ...

influential figure—and a man well acquainted with failure.^6 A portly man who led a nation and ...

purpose, and a nation may have never been born. Every calling is marked by a season of insignificance, a ...

preparation for what’s to come, as long as you don’t give up. So what separates a season of failure from ...

continues, we settle down and have kids and maybe get a little wiser and find ourselves questioning ...

He had started a publishing company, which was a dream of his for a number of years, and I wanted to know ...

waiting on you. And you can sit around, playing the what-if game until you’re exhausted, or you can begin ...

be? I was scared. Fear. We all feel it. It’s a force that afflicts even the most courageous. So what ...

the worst thing you can do. It feels like work but is in fact destructive to the real work of realizing ...

Not all pivots have happy endings. In 1939, German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer set sail for America, a t ...

Flossenburg concentration camp, just two weeks before American soldiers arrived to liberate the camp.^13 ...

SIX The Portfolio Life A New Kind of Mastery The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them ...

Your calling is not just one thing; it’s a few things. The trick is to not be a jack-of-all-trades but to bec ...

else was out there. For three months, he lived out of a tent and explored the western United States, eventually ...

first box was moved into our new house,” Jody said, “I had made up my mind. I was going to be a park ...

Pulling Aiden out of his crib, I carry him downstairs to make breakfast. Today we’re having ham-and-cheese o ...

I could, of course, tell them I run a website selling online products but that I’m not really ...

he couldn’t have been living off that money. “Is it speaking?” I continued. I had explored this ...

supposed to work. A Portfolio Perspective By the year 2020, 40 to 50 percent of the American work ...