How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters share it as an inspiring reflection on what to optimize in life beyond career, especially in threads on burnout and meaning.
What it is
Clayton Christensen's TEDx talk applying business theory to personal life. He argues that career success is not the right measure of a life and urges attention to relationships and values.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2014 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec khaledh · 2016-08 · on “How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself”
[this video] How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston This is a very inspiring presentation, especially towards the end. The take away is that it's not important how high you went up a certain hierarchy or how much money you have in the bank. The important question is what did you do with your life to make other people's lives better? When you're put in certain situations that touch other people's lives, it's for a reason, and your life will be measured by how you did in those situations.
Recommends lateguy · 2014-06 · on “Founder Depression”
What a good response, I first read sam article and agreed to him but with good response changed a lot. I still feel there is a problem with life that is tradeoff. Lets see right from the start when we are born in this world we don't have any thoughts or goals nothing. The world start giving us reality. Suppose most of the people here on HN will want to be a better programmer and improve themselves. In Programming they find something good. Ideally as they were born with nothing so how they can say this is actually they want, so when people say this is what they really want I think they still say what the world them to say. Now the next point come when people make decision and then repent, its
Cites nuisance-bear · 2021-04 · on “Harvard Diploma for Sale”
Clay Christensen used to tell a story about the atmosphere at HBS reunions over time. It sounds like this person learned early on the lesson that HBS graduates learn by their 25th reunion. Edit: [this video]
Cites khaledh · 2024-10 · on “Care Doesn't Scale”
This reminds me of Clay Christensen's talk: How Will You Measure Your Life?[0] He compares how most people define success by how high up the hierarchy they get, against the individual effort of making a positive impact on the people around you. [0] [this video]