139. The Invisible Career Scripts Shaping Your Choices

About this episode

This episode explores the invisible career scripts that influence our choices and perceptions of success.

In this episode, I explore a quiet but powerful idea: the invisible career scripts many of us follow without realising. These scripts are the stories we inherit from family, education, workplaces, and professional cultures. Ideas about what success should look like, what feels sensible, and what feels risky. They often sound like good advice: work hard, don’t rock the boat, be grateful for what you have. And for a long time, they usually work. But at some point in mid-career, those same scrip...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Crossfield

Topics covered

• career scripts
• mid-career
• success
• professional culture
• personal development

Keywords

• career choices
• invisible scripts
• success
• workplace culture
• mid-career change

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