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This week on Field Notes, we’re talking about career paths. We’ve broken this conversation down into five steps. We’ll dive into a different step each day this week. Today, we’re focusing on the importance (or lack there of) in having or thinking about a career path.<\/em><\/p>\n

Executive Director of the\u00a0Design Program at Stanford University, Bill Burnett shares his thoughts on one of the toughest questions we all face in life: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Burnett believes that\u00a0\u201cthe notion that you need to have a passion and follow it is a destructive idea” and that by using design-thinking principles, you can begin to understand yourself and your goals in order to overcome areas of \u201cdecision explosion\u201d in your career.
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