#470 Squiggly Short: Why ‘Finding Your Purpose’ Might Be Holding You Back

Do you need a purpose at work? That is a topic that we have been talking about this week. So we've been diving into the world of purpose and thinking about what do we really think and what is actually really helpful. So there's some research that's been done by McKinsey, which says that 85% of people have this kind of connection understanding of. having a purpose at work, but actually only 65% of people could articulate it clearly so that they know it for themselves or could share it with other people. So Sarah, where where do you sit on your purpose? Can you clearly articulate it to other people? Do you think we need one? Um so no and no. I feel like here we're really the exception. to the rule. I've read quite a lot about kind of purpose and passion. I think those two kind of phrases get kind of woven together. And my conclusion is what's more useful is to think about

What does purposeful work? mean to me. And I think the reason for that is when you say purpose I find it a bit abstract, not that connected to my day to day. We have a purpose at Amazing If that I feel very connected to to kind of make careers better for everyone.

But then I don't go, Oh, but that's my personal That's what I live for. That's what I work for. And I sort of do live for it quite a lot of the time. But even then, even though that's like our company and that's the something we came up with together, even then I sort of question the usefulness of going, well, I'm gonna keep coming back to that as like a filter for my decisions. But also I feel like we're different people, we're different motivations. And so if that's our company purpose, I'm like, Well where's my Where's my individual take on that? It doesn't feel quite unique to me if we've got the same thing. And it's a popular topic, so I think that then has prompted lots of questions from our listeners and kind of viewers. So people saying things like, Well, I've worked for twenty years, but I feel like I don't have a purpose. Like

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