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1 online resource (viii, 170 pages) |
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Transgressions, 2214-9732 ; 101 |
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Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; 101. 2214-9732
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| Contents |
Contents -- Why This Book? -- Are We Empowered? -- Chapter One: Learning and Then Having to Unlearn -- The Sugar Beet Field, and My Plan to Transcend It -- Just How Did We Become Educated? -- The First Cracks in My Paradigm -- Playing the Game Took Its Toll and Changed Who I Was, But Not for the Better -- Bright Lights, Big City: Confusion Sets In -- My Descent into Depression and My Decision to Re-educate -- Chapter Two: The Process of Re-Education: Pursuing Flow and Mastery -- Our World Is Not the World That Our Parents Were Raised In |
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Since the World Is Different, Schooling Should be DifferentHow I Started to Re-educate Myself -- The Difficulties in Taking an “Intentional Life� Approach -- Stepping into the Void and the Risky World “Out There� -- The Riskiness of the “Live To Retire� Model of Career Design -- The Discovery That I Was Not Alone, Others Were Living in Quiet Desperation -- Money and Status Are Weak Motivators, We Want Happiness and Meaning -- Rewards Aren�t the Answer, Intrinsic Motivation Is, Here Is How We Develop It |
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Understanding What We Uniquely Value, and Avoiding the Universal Value TrapRe-educating Myself: Learning to Pursue Mastery, Not External Rewards -- Re-educating Myself: Learning to Pursue Flow and Intrinsically Motivating Goals -- Case Study in Mastery and Flow: Helio Gracie and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu -- Chapter Three: Breaking Free by Understanding Fear and Risk -- The Pull of a Creative and Compelling Life Vision -- A Creative Vision Eliminates the Need for Willpower -- Fear Sells, Fear Works: We Must Learn to Manage Fear or It Will Manage Us |
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Learning to Manage Fear: Survival-Empowerment InventoryLearning to Manage Fear: Visualizing Past Victories or Learning Experiences -- Learning to Manage Fear: Fulfillment Waits for Us on the Other Side of Fear -- It Is More Than Just Fear: We Don�t Understand Risk Very Well -- Why We Don�t Understand Risk Principle #1: Confirmation Bias -- Why We Don�t Understand Risk Principle #2: Group Polarization -- Why We Don�t Understand Risk Principle #3: Representativeness and Our Consistent Irrationality -- Why We Don�t Understand Risk Principle #4: The Example Rule |
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Why We Don�t Understand Risk Principle #5: The Anchor RuleOur Social Nature Impacts Our Ability to Assess Risk -- Staying Is Way Too Risky If We Aren�t Willing to Commit to Mastery -- Chapter Four: Embracing Experimentation, Failure, and Leading a Tribe -- Redefining the Concept of Failure, Living by “A Thousand Simple Tests� -- How to Get Unstuck -- 1. What Do You Really Want to Do? -- 2. Don�t Tie Yourself Financially to the Job You Dislike. Build a Couple “Months� Security |
| Summary |
"Work. It's what we spend the majority of our adult lives doing. We all want careers that are personally engaging, and financially secure, but often people find themselves professionally unfulfilled, confused, and uncertain about how to make a change that won't jeopardize their security. Drawing on his own experience of leaving a financially secure career at a prestigious international law firm to seek out an uncertain path of entrepreneurship, the author shares his unique story about how he became empowered in his career through a process of re-education, and the insightful lessons about career fulfillment they don't teach us in school. Unsuited gives powerful insights on how people misinterpret the concept of risk when planning their careers, why, because of the Internet, the career advice our parents gave us is outdated, why the work to retire career planning model is a mistake, and why failing, embracing experimentation, and intentionally doing the things that scare us might very well be the most secure path to personal fulfillment. The book gives practical advice on how to channel mastery and psychological flow into a career, and why pursuing rewards (such as money, praise and accomplishment) will ultimately leave us unsatisfied. A practical path is laid out for people who want to start doing what they truly value, how to tap one's inner creative genius, how to use the Internet to share what we love, and how this process can be both personally fulfilling and financially profitable." |
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onderwijs |
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education |
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Education (General) |
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Onderwijs (algemeen) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 16, 2014) |
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Career changes.
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Vocational guidance.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Skills.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Career changes
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Vocational guidance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789462096479 |
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9462096473 |
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9462096457 |
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9789462096455 |
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9462096465 |
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9789462096462 |
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