Are You Spending Your Life on Things You Actually Enjoy and Care About? | Jonathan Fields

It's the ten percent happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how we doing? My big question when I was younger was What should I do with my life?

And honestly, this is a question I still ask myself quite frequently. It's why I've taken so many risks And uh run so many experiments in my professional And also in my personal life. Of course, if you're gonna do this kind of thing, if you're gonna take risks. Yeah.

pretty good at handling uncertainty, which is a whole skill set. I don't want to pretend I'm amazing at this,'cause I'm a pretty anxious dude, but I have not let my anxiety stop me. So today we're gonna talk about all of this, uh how to figure out whether you're spending your life on what you actually care about. and how to manage the uncertainty that comes from making change. We're gonna talk about all of this with a guy named Jonathan Fields. Jonathan is the author of several books, including Sparked. Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive. He's also the host of two podcasts, including The Good Life Project and Sparked.

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