The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That MattersAn empowering and insightful self-help book for Gen Z young adults to find passion, purpose, and success in their careers How do you actually find meaning in the workplace? How do you find work that makes your heart sing, creates impact, and pays your rent? After realizing that his well-paying, prestigious job was actually making him miserable, Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky started asking these big questions. The Quarter-Life Breakthrough provides fresh, honest, counterintuitive, and inspiring career advice for anyone stuck in a quarter-life crisis (or third-life crisis), trying to figure out what to do with your life. Smiley shares the stories of many twenty- and thirty-somethings who are discovering how to work with purpose (and still pay the bills). Brimming with practical exercises and advice, this book is essential reading for millennial career changers and anyone passionate about getting unstuck, pursuing work that matters, and changing the world. |
Contents
PART ONE INVENT YOUR OWN PATH l | 3 |
No Mo FOMO | 17 |
Embrace Fear | 25 |
PART TVO FIND MEANINGFUL WORK | 35 |
Define Meaningful Work | 37 |
Find Alignment | 59 |
The Infinile Paths to Meaningful Work | 87 |
How to Kick Sori Your Medningful Job Search | 93 |
Who Io Do When Someone Tells You Youre No Reddy for Your Dreams | 127 |
Get Your Breakthrough Hustle On | 132 |
Persistence Trumps Passion lessons in Breakthrough Husſing | 150 |
Find Believers | 160 |
leave a legacy | 179 |
Conclusion The Journey Continues | 187 |
Join the Breakthrough Community | 189 |
Grailude | 191 |
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