Professional Self-Authorship

Stop Waiting for Someone Else to Define Your Career At some point, career development becomes less about climbing somebody else’s ladder. You begin asking: • What kind of work fits the person I am becoming? • What am I good at? • What do I want to become good at? • What problems do I care about? • What kind of environment helps me perform? • What kind destroys my ability to function? • What kind of people do I want to work with? • What responsibilities do I want? • What am I unwilling to sacrifice? • What kind of life do I want my work to support? Agency does not mean doing everything alone. It means becoming an active participant in determining what you build. The following are integration exercises, not additional core challenges in the 40-challenge sequence.