Series #02: Don’t Work
What happens when you don’t work? When your primary identity, centered around work, disappears? What remains? And what is rediscovered in its place?
10-part series
Work identity serves, then severs >>
My work identity: the rise before the fall.
Part 1 | Reading Time: 5 mins
The unexpected benefits of escaping from it all (and what to put back in its place).
Part 3 | Reading Time: 5 mins
Why you should get less done (when you’re stuck). From a productivity fanatic.
Part 4 | Reading Time: 6 mins
Is our current concept of ambition, ambitious enough?
Part 5 | Reading Time: 7 mins
So you believe in hard work. But what is your work?
Part 6 | Reading Time: 6 mins
Diversified Portfolio of Identities >>
We would never put all of our money into one stock. But many of us put the entirety of our identity into one area: Work.
Part 7 | Reading Time: 6 mins
Scale down, after scaling up >>
Coming back down to reality, after reaching the top
Part 8 | Reading Time: 6 mins
The very easy, not-painful-at-all, 5 super simple steps to changing your career >>
The definitely-no-pain-whatsoever guide to doing something different
Part 9 | Reading Time: 6 mins
When you don’t have a “calling” >>
How to find your work, when it isn’t obvious.
Part 10 | Reading Time: 8 mins
Are you climbing the wrong mountain >>
A summary of the “Don’t Work” series: lessons from a year away
Summary | Reading Time: 7 mins