Many young professionals and mid-career changers are leaving lucrative fields to find more meaningful work. They say their jobs don’t seem to matter; I’ve worked with hundreds of lawyers who don’t feel like their work is important or useful to others. In many cases, they’re not exaggerating.
Frans de Waal, renowned primatologist, gives an elegant talk [...]

 
By the time young people hear an inspiring commencement speech it’s too late—they are already pretty far down the wrong road.  The critical decision on what to major in has set them on a course with long-term consequences that won’t be apparent until long after they’ve graduated. 
 A career choice is immensely difficult; it’s one of [...]

The Career Decision Problem is a tough nut to crack, largely because the roots of the problem are not easily visible to the naked eye.  The blog post, The Stimulus We Really Need, discussed that since people don’t know they have a unique set of innate talents, they are left to navigate their career choices without [...]

Video provided courtesy of CharlieRose.com
We make decisions today that will eventually shape our tomorrow.  In this video, Jared Diamond talks about his book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, an exhaustive study of the kinds of decisions that lead to a collapse of a society (e.g., Easter Island).   
Through his life’s work in evolutionary biology, accompanied [...]