The Good in Getting There: Thinking Critically About Your Career/Skills and The Meaning of Your Life's Work
About this episode
The episode explores critical thinking about career and life's work through a conversation with Paul Comfort, emphasizing self-knowledge and community engineering.
Critical thinking, happiness, career goals, and...how we understand moving about our cities. What assumptions do we hold onto about our purpose? In this episode of Good Is In The Details , Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo sit down with Paul Comfort — Senior Vice President at Modaxo Americas, former CEO of the Maryland Transit Administration and Transloc, host of the award-winning Transit Unplugged podcast, and author of the forthcoming book Find Your X Factor — for a conversation that moves seamlessly from Socratic self-knowledge to the engineering of communities, and argues that both are expressions of the same fundamental question: what does it mean to live well, together? The episode begins where Paul's book begins, with the inward turn. Find Your X Factor is a guide to identifying your authentic skill set, your genuine talents, and the voice inside you that knows what kind of work would allow you to fully express who you are rather than chasing the career someone else told you to want. Gwendolyn hears in this an unmistakably Socratic echo: the ancient Greek philosopher who insisted that the examined life, the life turned inward toward honest self-knowledge, was the only…
People in this episode
Hosts: Gwendolyn Dolske, Rudy Salo
Guest: Paul Comfort
Topics covered
- critical thinking
- career goals
- self-knowledge
- happiness
- public transportation
- community engineering
Keywords
- career
- skills
- happiness
- self-knowledge
- public transportation
- Socrates
- authenticity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Modaxo Americas, Maryland Transit Administration, Transloc, Transit Unplugged
Books & works: Find Your X Factor
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