Why your job isn't meaningless | Stephen Butler | TEDxUAlberta
How can you find your "why" in virtually any job? Management consultant Stephen Butler outlines how you can feel more fulfilled at work by recognizing the importance of everyday development, not just achievements.
Stephen Butler earned his PhD in social sciences from Cambridge before teaching at Harvard and apprenticing at The Boston Consulting Group. His experience as an executive and entrepreneur has made him a sought-after advisor to growth companies and teams, and one of Canada’s Top 100 Professionals 2023 (Top 100 Magazine).
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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I’m really impressed that you managed to get Trevor from GTA V to host a Ted Talk.
A meaningful living wage has to come first because it's a lot harder to focus on aspirational goals when you have a hard time paying rent and putting food on the table..
Having had the pleasure and privilege of working with you IRL, Stephen, I observe once again that you describe something really important uniquely and compellingly. This message resonates very strongly with me.
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As a millennial who works with gen z and millennials getting started in their career many are clear on their purpose then quickly get disillusioned that the company they work for squeezes out their purpose and they feel like machines on a cog.
Insightful talk!
Yes, but in our society, it doesn't work like that. It's not because you discover new things, that you learn and have an impact on certain people. No. I work somewhere, I learn, I improve my skills and I probably have an impact on others, but at the end of the day, this pseudo-positive perspective is counterbalanced by the small salary I receive. At the end of the day or month, I'm still struggling to make ends meet. And no matter what I've learned, it doesn't help me survive in this society. It only works for people who earn enough and get bored. This student probably smiled as she moved dirt, but she wouldn't do it for the rest of her life.
Yep, let us all delude ourselves into believing our robotic employment is 'meaningful'.
It would feel a lot more meaningful if the pay was better. I get that not all jobs require a high amount of intellectual prowess, but even jobs like construction, manufacturing, services, etc. require an immense amount of physical and emotional efforts.
Thanks to the clapping at the end i'm also deaf now
Executives are so disconnected from the hoi polloi. Look up Dark Triad, which make up most of the executive class, the vast majority. Look at the game in that context. Pharaoh lives. It's a con game. On the other hand, so what a man believes in his heart, so he is. The vast majority of us aren't like the 1-2% that run things. It's a consistent pattern throughout history.
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baraurnoirs!
YIN/YANG; Taoism; The Way of the Superior Man
I am on 6th
Why, why, why
If discovery will lead to nothing?
3rd is it
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