Find your purpose

1.1 Focus on your strengths

The key to success is to steer around your weaknesses and focus on your strengths as they are part of your innate success mechanism.

1.2 Follow your vocation, not your passion

What will see you through is not a surface level passion but the sense of deep connection to what you're meant to accomplish.

1.3 You’ve got to find what you love

This is a transcript from the second story in Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. Scroll down to watch the full video segment.

1.4 Evaluate work- and life experiences from the past

You break down your past jobs into their basic building blocks (i.e. your interests and skill sets), then rearrange those building blocks in new ways.

1.5 Maybe you’re an artist!

The essence of art lies in an unusual sensitivity to some aspect of everyday experience. This sensitivity is something we were born with.

1.6 What career suits you? Do the test!

Holland codes are a way of classifying people according to their interests so that they can be matched with appropriate careers.