Let Your Body Lead: Career Planning With Somatics
summary
Claims that tuning somatic intelligence — not spreadsheets — improves career choices, supported by concrete methods and studies: use a coin flip to amplify immediate bodily preference, practice a body-scan meditation to increase interoception, track heartbeats or focus on a toe as quick sensors, and use journaling/oracles or red‑yellow‑green check‑ins. Cites psychophysiology (skin‑conductance in decision tasks, trader studies), warns meds or trauma can blunt signals, and gives career outcomes: felt‑sense led to a promotion goal and to accepting a VP role after following embodied “likes,” showing the approach can work in practice.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 8:30Heartbeat
- 12:16Observability/embodied self- awareness: the better we can observe the system, the better choices we can make about how it needs to change
- 12:33In fact, research shows we know things in our bodies long before we have cognitive access to the information
- 20:11How can you apply this to making career choices?
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