How to choose your career based on the right kind of purpose

When it comes to purpose, bigger is not better, writes author Jordan Grumet. Here’s why.

It’s not surprising that I suffered from burnout and eventually left the practice of medicine. Only in retrospect can I see clearly that I had built a life around the wrong-sized purpose. The signs were there along the way, but I chose to ignore them. The reasons are many, but the outcome was always the same. I spent much time thinking about the destination and very little about the path I was taking to get there. That path was much less gratifying than I hoped it would be. I simply didn’t enjoy being a doctor.