Dr. Belle Liang and Tim Klein on How to Navigate Life

Key Points

  • Agency is a core part of purpose. 

  • The future of wayfinding is not going to be about grades, it’s going to be about narratives.

how to navigate life

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Belle Liang, a professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston College, and Tim Klein, an award-winning urban educator, clinical therapist, school counselor and formerly served as the Chief Impact Officer at Project Wayfinder. Tim now works with Belle at the Purpose Lab

Both are also authors of the great new book How to Navigate Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond

It’s actually almost impossible to learn if there aren’t positive feeling shappening while you’re doing it.

Tim Klein

Performance and passion mindsets are very me-oriented mindsets. When we are so focused on trying to attain all these things for ourselves: all the happiness in the world or all the achievement in the world… that’s a stressful proposition.

Dr. Belle Liang

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