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CORE
CAREERS
May Must Reads

Gen Z is struggling nowadays due to the tremendous flow of information they are served with
and the lack of knowledge of ways to mobilize this information to their benefit. To brief you in,
according to demographers, Gen Z are the people born from mid-90s and through mid-2000; the
ones with the most access to all kinds of raw information. Buckle-up, all Gen Z’s out there, for you
are about to formulate a new perspective on values, beliefs and norms through the upcoming page
turners, presented to you by some of the worlds’ greatest minds; here’s a sneak-peak…

80,000 Hours

“Pursue your passion.” The ultimately redundant
cliché we have all gotten tired of hearing. Because,
let’s face it, we are neither aware of what passion
truly embodies in careers generally, nor do we
know whether our passion would be a pathway
to ensuring sustainable income and success.
Benjamin Todd introduces a rather distinct
approach to the career coaching arena; in terms of
both planning in addition to pursuing a career in his
book 80,000 Hours: Finding a Fulfilling Career That
Does Good.
“Rather than “follow your passion”, our slogan for
a fulfilling career is: get good at something that
helps others. Or simply: do what contributes,” Todd
says in his book that was published on November
28, 2016, with a 4.10 rating on Goodreads.
Furthermore, he introduces the meaning of being
a high-impact citizen to the limelight, where he
thoroughly explains the presence of a fine line
between having tangible impact and authentic
impact.
The foundation of the book is set on four main
perspectives: the myth of pursuing your passion,
the most obvious choices are not always the best
paths for contribution, comparing controversial
as well as scaling them from most urgent to least
urgent, and lastly, introspecting points of strength.
Through these ideas and among the tips and tricks
scattered across the pages of the book,

Todd aims to influence his readers towards an
assertive career path, rather than one built on
Rather emotional basis; promising not only a stable career
path, but one that contributes greatly to society.
than “follow your This sense of altruism -striving for the greater

passion”, our slogan for good of the society- that Benjamin Todd adopts
is, in fact, one of the values he depends on in
a fulfilling career is: get his message to the public and encourages the
contributors to his project 80,000 hours to adopt as
well, amongst three more values: having consistent
good at something that evidence forever and always, delivering high
quality advice along with transparency in delivering
helps others. messages, which means that all the conclusions his
project has reached can be found by the public on
the website he established.

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