Career Relaunch®

Deciding What Matters

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September 20, 2017 8:00pm

33m

What have you spent your time chasing in your career? Fancy titles? The role of CEO? The opportunity to say you manage a huge team of X people? Have you ever stopped to think about why those things matter to you so much? What drives you to focus on that goal?

In this 1-year anniversary episode of Career Relaunch, Bruce Daisley, Vice President of Twitter, EMEA shares his insights on drivers of happiness in the workplace and the motivations behind his own career shifts from Google & YouTube to Twitter. In the Mental Fuel® segment, I’ll explain how focusing on the wrong driver of happiness initially led me astray in my own career and the realization I had that got me back on track.

Key Career Insights

  1. Job titles and material possessions may create short term bursts of happiness, but they don’t lead to true, long term happiness.
  2. What creates happiness at work is not what people give you, but rather, what you accomplish.
  3. Happiness is a direct output of what you pay attention to. So pay attention to those things that are truly important.

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Related Resources

  • Bruce’s LinkedIn article entitled Can We be Happier at Work gives a snapshot of the conversations on his podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat.
  • Richard Reeves, author of Happy Mondays, talks about importance of having good friends in the workplace, a topic Bruce covered in the Friends & Flow Episode 1 of his Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast. Also, this article in Harvard Business Review on Forming Stronger Bonds with People at Work is a very useful read if you’re looking for ways to build stronger work relationships.
  • Bruce alluded to:
    • Emma Seppala at Stanford University, who writes for the Harvard Business Review and describes how more people are feeling lonely in the workplace.
    • Lucy Kellaway, former management columnist for the Financial Times has now become a math teacher.
    • Alex “Sandy” Pentland of MIT found most creative environments are those that have high levels of short bursts of chat.
    • British economist Baron Richard Layard and Crowdwish founder Bill