Benjamin Todd

Apply this to your own career.

These six ingredients, especially helping others and getting good at your job, can act as guiding lights.

They're what to aim to find in a dream job long term.

Here are some exercises to help you start applying them.

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Practice using the six ingredients to make some comparisons.

Pick two options you're interested in, then score them from 1 to 5 on each factor.

The six ingredients we list are only a starting point.

There may be other factors that are especially important to you, so we also recommend doing the following exercises.

They're not perfect.

As we saw earlier, our memories of what we've found fulfilling can be unreliable.

But completely ignoring your past experience isn't wise either.

These questions should give you hints about what you find most fulfilling.

When have you been most fulfilled in the past?

What did these times have in common?

Imagine you just found out you're going to die in 10 years.

What would you spend your time doing?

And can you make any of our six factors more specific?

For example, what kinds of people do you most like to work with?

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