37: Should I Choose Safety or Passion?

What path should you take? The Safe Path is predictable and comfortable. But then there's the Passion Path, where you know you'll encounter a life of adventure and excitement. This question applies equally to life and career.  Listen up to discover a mental model for approaching safety vs. passion. Break free of the Corporate Cage: join the Uncaged Academy. *** TIMESTAMPS 02:35 A question of two paths 04:28 Contemplating passion 05:39 Truly, what is safety? 07:00 Too much safety = masochism 07:22 A framework for action 11:29 Recap of big ideas *** TAKEAWAYS 1. Starting down the Safety Path gets a relevant foothold early on. But soon enough, you'll wrestle with a burning desire for passion. 2. We're never really safe if we feel continually terrible in the process. 3. Someone else's Plan A is inevitably your Plan B 4. Understand your personal Law of Diminishing Returns — the point at which it no longer makes sense to go "above and beyond" at work. 5. Use regret as a forecasting tool — think forward to your deathbed. What anticipated insights can you pull from the future to the present? *** RESOURCES Join the Uncaged Academy (cohort-based course) Subscribe to the Wednesday Wisdom newsletter Connect w/ Matt on LinkedIn Follow on Twitter @MatthewRDoan Check the show on YouTube Related episodes: Escaping the Matrix (#23)