Identity Crisis: Why Defining Yourself by Your Career Is a Problem

One way to develop a healthier relationship with your career may be to visualize its end. “The party’s going to finish,” says HBS Professor and co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of "Build the Life You Want" Arthur C. Brooks. Here are some steps you can take to mentally and emotionally prepare for the inevitable.

00:00 People in business play their own form of identity politics
01:00 Identities based on fear (of death)
01:50 What to do: a death meditation
03:30 A 9-part meditation you can try

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