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searching for your life's work is a multi-turn endeavor

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on pivots + an update: blog is changing, because I have changed

George Morrison, 1961 Here’s a pattern I’ve witnessed in countless conversations with people whose career trajectories I admire. Most discovered their life’s work, their techne — or true craft and path on this earth — through adjacencies. Their first hypothesis of what kind of life would fit was wrong. Searching for their life’s work was a multi-turn endeavor1. Every turn was partly right and partly wrong. Rightness revealed itself gently over time, and it brought them closer to finding a life that fit them. In other words, slight pivots compounded over time alter the course of your life…

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