Abraham Maslow and Meaningful Work from The Career Peer

In the first episode of The Career Peer, we focused on Abraham Maslow, but not the surface-level coverage you might hear in an introductory business course. We go deeper into how to make an impact with your life. Not life in general or a typical life, but your life. One of my favorite callouts from the episode:

“What we're really talking about is finding meaning in your life's work, your career portfolio. And, you know, I'm being deliberate on the word, "life's". What we do accumulates, and it identifies. You're not trying to find or do self-actualizing work, per se; you're doing the work, and you're persisting, and you're dedicating yourself to the work being of the highest quality. And then maybe later, you can observe that you went beyond your limits. That's a big phrase with Maslow: beyond your limits. Possibly you had inhibitions about doing what you did within the work. But you got past those inhibitions. That's what I think is really powerful here, it's making yourself go beyond what's possible.”

Nearly every executive I’ve interacted with talks about continuous improvement, doing better, doing more, perfecting the business, or something similar. The idea about going beyond one’s limits or bettering the efforts is a question of intensity, and when an individual can find that lane to breakthrough, both career development and organizational success can emerge!

Here is a link to the episode and additional resources on The Career Peer website.

Below is the embedded audio, if you wish to listen without a click!

Enjoy!