#597 How thinking inside the box will lead to more opportunities for your squiggly career.

Hi, I'm Helen. And I'm Sarah. And you're listening to the Squiggly Careers Podcast, a weekly podcast where we borrow brilliance from things we are watching at home or reading on the way to work or talking about with each other. Just random things that inspire us and help us think about different ideas that you can put into action with your career. And today is one of the Slightly more I don't know. Left field? Left field, I don't know what to call it. Uh what are we borrowing brilliance from today, Sarah? A box. A box.

It will make sense when we get Tell us a bit more about the box so people know where we're going with it. Well, um the more sort of conventional answer is A box and a book, maybe. A box and a book, okay. So David Epstein, who wrote Range, um, who's been on the podcast before. Yep. um has a new book out. Uh he doesn't write books very often actually. He's not someone who

Chends them out all the time. Maybe like us. It's twenty twenty. Yeah. There's reasons for that. Anyway, um but he doesn't write he you know, he can't remember when Rage came out, but it would have been a little while ago now. Um and he's always really thoughtful and well researched, and his new book is called Inside the Box. How constraints make us better. And so you know, there are some people you think

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