@dotsokt: This is insane. I genuinely don’t understand why ambitious people aren’t shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives. Clayton Christensen spent his career studying why successful companies fail. In his final class, he asked his students to apply the same thinking to their own lives: If you keep allocating your time the same way, what kind of life are you actually building? He had already seen the answer in his own Harvard MBA class. At the fifth reunion, everyone looked successful. By the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th reunions, many were unhappy, divorced, or living far from their children. Work gives you immediate feedback. Close a sale. Ship a product. Finish a presentation. Get promoted. Get paid. An hour with your child might produce nothing you can measure today. You may not understand what that hour built for another 20 years. So the next free hour goes back to work. One rational decision at a time. That’s how people end up building lives they never intended to build: hundreds of reasonable decisions that slowly point in the wrong direction. Money, titles, and headcount are easy to measure. Christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there. He died in 2020. One question remains: If someone looked only at where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you? The full 19-minute lecture is in the video below. #fyp #fy #mindset #business #career

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