E6 The Science Behind Career Success | Grace Lordan

When you switch careers, or change your current path, you are not losing your progress. Without your current experiences maybe you wouldn't be taking that kind of decision.

You shouldn't have to be comfortable with being certain kind of professional, but rather with doing the activities that professional does on a daily basis.

After doing something, you should ask yourself if what you did was either fun or purposeful. If both answers to those questions were a no, what are you doing with your time?

You should rely on a cost benefit analysis but even if you don’t, you should ask yourself if your decisions are deliberate.

Something that worked for someone else could not work for you, because context matters. But what you should do is to ask yourself why did it work for someone else and not for yourself.

It is not bad to have pleasure in your life, the thing is that you have to encounter a balance between it and your purpose.

• Internal locus of control: it refers to something that we say is within our control and therefore we could struggle to change.
• External locus of control: it refers to something that we say is not within our control and therefore we cannot change.

The thing is that we have to find a balance between the things we know are within our control and the things we know are not within our control

Well, until certain level. The thing is that we should keep the thing we are procrastinating in the back of our mind in order to think in the background of the best way to do it.