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The Edit: Finding your Identity
The Edit

The Edit: Finding your Identity

Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.

2 minute read

4th Nov 2022

Probability paradoxes, forming your work identity and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

  • Three changes businesses must make to improve diversity. Black business leaders call for companies to review recruitment practices, representation and career support – Raconteur
  • How to make life more transcendent. Many seek experiences that are “bigger” than daily life such as a sense of awe, a feeling of oneness with others, and a loss of the boundaries of space and time – The Atlantic
  • When changing jobs changes your identity. To find success in your new role, you may need to let go of certain pieces of yourself, and embrace others – Harvard Business Review
  • Puzzles and paradoxes in probability. Alan Hájek on why paradoxes offer more than mere intellectual curiosity – 80,000 Hours Podcast
  • Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful, broken worlds. “Shuna’s Journey” asks what it’s like to be a child in a world that is dying – The New Yorker
  • Businesses with a clear purpose perform better – More than half of business leaders say that purpose, a clear sense of a company’s direction, does not get adequate attention in their industry – World Economic Forum
  • Attuned to the aesthetic. The ultimate value of the world can be discovered if you are sensitive to what is beautiful – Aeon
  • 4 Ways for Businesses to Authentically Be Part of COP27.  Have the audacity to go to the moon with your climate commitments – The Beautiful Truth

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

Maya Angelou