Planning a high-impact career: a summary of everything you need to know in 7 points
We took ten years of research and what’s we’ve learned advising 1,000+ people on how to build high impact careers, compressed that into an 8-week course to create your career plan, and then compressed that into this 3 page summary of the main points.
(It’s especially aimed at people who want a career that’s both satisfying and has a significant positive impact, but much of the advice applies to all career decisions.)
You can divide career aims into three categories: (i) personal priorities (ii) impartial positive impact, and (iii) other moral values. We’d encourage you to make your own definition of each.
We define ‘impartial positive impact’ as what helps the most people live better lives in the long term, treating everyone’s interests as equal.
Because most people reach their peak productivity between age 40–60, you need your work to be personally satisfying enough to stick with it for the long haul, and to build career capital.
