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what elevator pitches are and how it helps to record them

"The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your #career." #altac Opportunity

If you feel like you’re headed in the wrong direction with your current career path, this tracing exercise can help show you what moves you might want to consider making.

These people used technology to turn their passions into careers. Here’s what they learned along the way.

Starting at a young age, most of us are questioned about what we want to be “when we grow up,” as if we should all have some singular career goal that we work towards our entire life. Unfortunately, it’s a little more complicated than that. And unlike previous generations, many people don’t take a job right out of high school and college and then stick with it until retirement. We’re encouraged to find our “career path”—whatever that means—and follow it. Great, but where do you even start with that? Here are some ideas.

There’s often a gap between identifying what you naturally gravitate toward and gain energy from and how that translates into your full-time work. Take a deep breath and dive in with these three steps that’ll start closing it.

A video excerpt from Daniel Pink's DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us