Side Chat: Why obsessing over your career doesn’t work

<p class="p1">One of my favorite quotes from any movie, ever, is from <em>Men in Black</em>—when Tommy Lee Jones is talking to Will Smith about the existence of aliens (I may have <a href= "https://clarityonfire.com/the-horse-buggy-analogy/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1">written and recorded a whole blog about it</span></a> years ago):</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p3">“Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you <em>knew</em> that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll <em>know</em> tomorrow.”</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Humans are pretty good at getting wrapped up in our own experience. We forget that “how it is” is often <em>not</em> how it’s always been, or even how it is <em>now</em> in other places around the world.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>One of those things we’re convinced is true now, but hasn’t been true for most of human history? That your life revolves around your career.</strong></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">So, in this month’s brand-new Side Chat we’re taking you on a journey that might make you squirm, but you most definitely need to hear. We talk about…</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1"><span class="s3">What humans were obsessing over before they started fixating on their career</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s3">The reason we made the shift to obsessing over our careers, and what’s going on under the surface<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s3">Why making your career the thing your life revolves around never works</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s3">The one quality you need to have if you want to have a life—not just a career—you deeply enjoy</span></li> </ul> <p class="p4"> </p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"><a href= "https://clarityonfire.com/obsessing-career-doesnt-work" target= "_blank" rel="noop