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Making a career move is a chance to make fundamental changes in one’s life.
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075 |
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Precisely because they are taken for granted, basic assumptions are very hard to change.
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082 |
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In career transitions, the basic assumptions that typically prove most resistant to change concern our emotional relationships with institutions, our benchmarks for success, and our preconceived notions about viable work arrangements.
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082 |
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Correcting the encroachment of work on personal life is a pressing concern for most professionals seeking change, whether or not they are conscious of it at the start.
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086 |
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Transformation… happens less by grand design or careful strategy than by the small wins that result from ongoing practice that enhance our capacity to change.
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087 |
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By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is to delay taking the first step until they have settled on a destination.
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091 |
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Without meaning to, friends and family pigeonhole us. Worse, they fear our changing.
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121 |
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When change entails rethinking our very identity, we need substitutes for the people and groups we have to leave behind and role models for whom we might become.
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122 |
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Moments of insight – the culmination of meaning in a brief time span – tend to occur when we are relaxed, when we put aside our problem for a while, or when we are doing something out of character.
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140 |
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In almost every story of career change come to fruition, there is a palpable moment when things click into place…
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146 |
