Identity Crisis: Why Defining Yourself by Your Career Is a Problem
One way to develop a healthier relationship with your career may be to visualize its end. “The party’s going to finish,” says HBS Professor and coauthor (with Oprah Winfrey) of "Build the Life You Want" Arthur C. Brooks. Here are some steps you can take to mentally and emotionally prepare for the inevitable.
00:00 People in business play their own form of identity politics
01:00 Identities based on fear (of death)
01:50 What to do: a death meditation
03:30 A 9part meditation you can try
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