Jan Jachimowicz

I think the other thing that Leonard mentioned that I think is really helpful is that it can be helpful to differentiate how we pursue our passion and what we are passionate about.

And that over the course of our career, we can develop both.

We can both develop how we pursue our passion.

Maybe I'm passionate about one thing, but I'm going to try very many different ways of pursuing that thing.

And or I can pursue what it is that I'm passionate about.

Maybe that can change.

Maybe I have one passion, then another passion, then another passion.

But I think approaching it with this sense of curiosity and a developmental mindset, at least based on the research, seems really helpful.

I really like this way that Lynn did it by highlighting, here's the things I love.

And importantly, here are the red flags.

Here's the things that I don't want.

I think we often neglect those red flags.

And so I really like that exercise.

I think there are a couple of things that I have found can be helpful.

And it's not just things that I've developed.

This is trying on a lot of different research that people have done that I'm really grateful for that I can draw these tips on.

I think one of the ways to think about this, and this is based on research by Akira Shabram and colleagues who focused on people who have taken sabbaticals in their life and how they have used those sabbaticals to different ends, is to not only think of sabbaticals as places to recover, but to also think of them as places to discover more about oneself and importantly to then also practice.

And I think it's this practice component that we often underestimate.

I think a lot of people are very happy to do the kind of self-exploration that Linh talked about.

But the second step is then to apply that and to experiment, to practice.