AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
5 Skills To Succeed in ANY Career - Helen Tupper (Squiggly Careers)
Jul 21, 2023
01:36:42
Episode guests
AI Summary
Highlights
AI Chapters
Episode notes
Podcast summary created with Snipd AI
Quick takeaways
- Finding joy in work leads to increased productivity and sustainability.
- Squiggly careers emphasize individualized and fulfilling career trajectories.
- Reflection on personal values helps make career decisions aligned with fulfillment and growth.
- Networking and mentorship are important for gaining insights and exploring new opportunities.
Deep dives
The Importance of Finding Joy in Productivity
The speaker emphasizes that the secret to productivity is finding joy in your work. By making work feel good and energizing, it becomes more enjoyable and sustainable. This idea is supported by research in psychology and neuroscience. The book 'Feel Good Productivity' provides a science-backed guide on how to do more of what matters in a way that is enjoyable, meaningful, and sustainable.
Navigating Squiggly Careers
The podcast episode discusses squiggly careers, which are non-linear career paths. The traditional ladder-like progression is being replaced by flexible and individualized career trajectories. The focus is on finding fulfillment outside of just job promotions and redefining success. The episode explores five key skills to navigate squiggly careers, including values, strengths, confidence, networking, and exploring future possibilities.
Identifying Personal Values and Building Clarity
When discovering personal values, it is important to reflect on past experiences and unravel the moments that were particularly high or low. By analyzing these points in time, consistent themes and words begin to emerge, highlighting what is truly important. It is crucial to separate values from external influences and focus on what truly energizes and motivates one's work and life. This process helps build clarity and confidence in making career decisions aligned with personal fulfillment and growth.
Balancing Monetary Value and Meaningful Work
To balance monetary value with meaningful work, it is important to uncover the underlying meaning behind money and question the significance it holds. By understanding the true meaning and purpose behind financial goals, one can minimize dependency on pay and seek fulfillment from other sources. Exploring values and finding ways to fulfill them both within and outside of work can lead to greater happiness and a more balanced approach to career development.
The importance of pausing and reflecting on career progression
Instead of panicking or making sudden decisions about career progression, it is important to take a pause and reflect on one's values and how they can be fulfilled in a particular position.
The significance of exploring different career avenues
By exploring different career paths and having conversations about one's career goals and values, individuals can gain insights that can inform their decisions and lead to better career progression.
The role of strengths in career development
Strengths are not just limited to things one is already good at, but also include activities that give one energy and fulfillment at work. It is important to focus on these strengths and find ways to apply and develop them in different situations.
The value of building a network and seeking mentorship
Networking and seeking mentorship can open doors to new opportunities, accelerate learning, and gain valuable insights from experienced individuals. It is important to approach mentorship with a genuine desire to learn and make meaningful connections.
12.
How to Balance the Monetary Value of the Corporate Job With Exploring Other Options
5min
For a lot of us, navigating our future careers can feel like an uncertain and anxiety-inducing time. You might find yourself asking questions like: how do I know that I’m on the right path? Is my job truly fulfilling me? Am I using all my strengths and developing in my role? Do I really have to do this for the next 50 years of my working like? But among all this uncertainty you might be feeling, one thing is for certain - careers, as we’ve traditionally known them, are changing for the better. Gone are the days when a single career path and job ladder could define us for a lifetime. Instead, the world is moving towards a more exciting, fluid and non-linear model, where the focus is on talents over job titles and new possibilities over career plans — this is known as the squiggly career. And in this episode I’m here with Helen Tupper co-author of the No.1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller ‘The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career’ to talk about how we can navigate this change and develop the skills to successfully traverse the ‘squiggly career’ and maximise our potential for growth and opportunity. Helen has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Virgin and BP and is now CEO of Amazing If, an award-winning career development company with a mission to make work better for everyone. Her love of learning has led her to study at Henley, Cranfield and Cass Business School. Helen is a trustee for the Working Families charity and a Fellow of The RSA and lives. Along with co-authoring her two books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and most recently ‘You Coach You’ with Sarah Ellis, they also host the No.1 Careers podcast. Enjoy the episode!
Sponsored by Huel - go to https://www.huel.com/deepdive and with your first order you’ll get a free t-shirt and shaker.
Sponsored by Trading 212 - download the Trading 212 app https://trading212.com/promocodes/ALI and use the promo code "ALI" after signing up and depositing to receive a random free share worth up to £100. This is not financial advice. Investments can fall and rise. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Other fees may apply*. Capital is at risk.
📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!
Amazon
Website
Season 6 Episode 7
00:00 Intro
01:31 SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENT 👀
04:33 Your background
06:06 What is a squiggly career?
09:43 Think about talents not titles
11:29 Our obsession with the career ladder
16:26 The accidental meaning hypothesis
18:08 How do people end up in jobs they don’t enjoy?
25:15 Career fulfilment vs money
37:14 Skill 1
54:53 Skill 2
01:13:04 Skill 3
01:23:17 Skill 4
01:31:51 Skill 5
🔗 CONNECT WITH HELEN
🎥 YouTube Channel
🎙 Squiggly Careers Podcast
🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI
📒 Pre-order My Book - https://www.feelgoodproductivity.com
📲 Join My Telegram Community - https://t.me/+bH5gLHty5kBiOGZk
📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED
The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd - https://geni.us/n5SB
Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin - https://geni.us/fpJSkiE
Give And Take by Adam Grant - https://geni.us/9g4dz
📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT
Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/
🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST
Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives.
Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor
If you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏
Check out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.
See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode