Comments on: What drives us to choose the work we do? http://blog.escapethecity.org/categories/what-drives-us-to-choose-the-work-we-do/ The Escape blog - Our Story And Some Things We're Learning Fri, 17 May 2013 17:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adele http://blog.escapethecity.org/categories/what-drives-us-to-choose-the-work-we-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2546 Adele Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:48:52 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8866#comment-2546 True story – it’s not necessarily linear. I just find Maslow useful in the sense that Esc members often seem to be be tripped up by the question – ‘how am I going to finance this?’ Once they’ve sorted out their financial solution – whether it’s changing their flatting circumstances, or taking on a part-time role – they can then focus on their self-actualisation / expression ‘needs’. Have been meaning to get in touch with Sandbox – thanks for the reminder!

]]> By: Richard http://blog.escapethecity.org/categories/what-drives-us-to-choose-the-work-we-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2545 Richard Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:36:32 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8866#comment-2545 Great stuff. Really agree. I’ve read and enjoyed David Brooks, Steve Pavlina, Seth Godin, Eric Berne and Daniel Pink.

About Maslow – I think it’s a bit old fashioned now. My friends at Sandbox point out that we don’t have to or want to pass through all the levels of needs to reach self actualisation – it’s not linear.

More information here about Gen Y, and impact organisation hierarchy of needs check http://www.sandbox-network.com/impact/ – and do check out Chistian’s excellent TED talk which has a link at the bottom of that link.

Best,
Richard

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