Our new way to search for purposeful work

Issue 765, Sun 20 October, 2024

Happy Monday Escapees!

Inspiration can be hard to find when you’re on what can feel like an endless job hunt.

It can very quickly feel like entering a tunnel. The world narrows, the sky shrinks, and you’re just checking for opportunities, tweaking your documents, and repeating.

We think books and podcasts are a great way to stay inspired and keep putting your best self out there. Here are the Escape Team's top picks...

Books:

Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential by Carol Dweck

It’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.

The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career

The career is no longer a ladder. Focussed on the changing shape of work this book will help you be happier, and more successful in your career.

Designing your new work-life by Bill Burnett

We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes. But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?

Podcasts

The Escape Artists

Our podcast aims to provide you with the inspiration to realise your true calling, do something different and do something you love.

Mel Robbins Podcast

Mel's mission with The Mel Robbins Podcast is simple: to share proven tools that empower you to create a better life.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck with Mark Manson

Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his irreverent, hard-hitting style right to your ear holes with life advice that doesn't suck.

We hope these recommendations will help to keep you inspired. And if it’s inspiration you’re after, why not scroll down to see 10 Remarkable Opportunities that you will not want to miss!

Happy Escaping!

Elena, Aman, Dom, Charlotte K & Charlotte T

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