#67: meaningless careers
👋 Welcome to the 67th issue of Out of Curiosity, a weekly newsletter promoting ideas to help get 1% better everyday.
My name is Reza, and every week, I go through nearly 100 pieces of content (from books and podcasts to newsletters and tweets), and bring you the best in this newsletter.
In this issue:
💬 Conversations that changed my life
📈 Lesson from scaling Stripe
🗄️ On meaningless careers
💬 Conversations that changed my life
He said, if that's the price I have to pay to make the impact I want to have then I would pay it every day of the week. And for whatever reason it just stabbed me in the heart and it made me feel like if I want to spread a message, if I want to help more people, that there is a cost to it.
Fame has pros and cons. There are cons but I believe that there are more pros than cons. You get amazing teammates who otherwise would never know you exist, who already believe in your values. And you attract partners who also have the same mission and the same values, and it creates significantly more alignment and real world value.
→ The Game w/ Alex Hormozi | 33-min listen
📈 Lesson from scaling Stripe
People's personalities are determined by their values and tendencies.
But a lot of them come down to are you introverted or extroverted? Where are you on that continuum? And are you more task or people oriented? So I would take your values, and then I would plot yourself, like, am I a more extroverted task oriented person, which means you're kind of a director get sh*t done kind of person. Or am I a more extroverted, people-oriented person, which might mean actually you're probably great at being very charismatic, and buildings with followership, and maybe selling a vision.
And then you start to see, okay, if this is my sort of tendency in my default, and this is my value system, what are the ways that I operate that really make up who I am. It sort of becomes a belief system.
And my operating principles in the book is build self awareness to build mutual awareness. Another one is say the thing you think you cannot say. I think that I've come to believe that often your biggest strength one is also your weakness.
→ Lenny's Podcast | 81-min listen
🗄️ On meaningless careers
Everyone wants to work. In fact, most of us yearn for real work, but we have removed "work" from most jobs to our own detriment. We have replaced work with a glut of the unnecessary.
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. And I was aggressively indifferent to my work.
Is your job fulfilling? Is it satisfying? Are you the director of your own life? Or are you simply playing the role that so many of us have played?
Young Money | 7-min read
✨ One last thing…
👋 Until next week,
"The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference"... forgot about that!