Donald Super and Prioritizing Your Life Roles

Ryan Brown and Steve Weingarden focus on the importance of finding meaningful work and prioritizing the roles in your life. Why is it so important to take an overarching view of you career, rather than looking only at one component at a time?

Donald Super was a career educator, seminal in introducing the idea that people's career choices and decisions typically develop over a considerable time span. Super also promoted the idea that self-concept strongly influenced career choice. Super's Life-Career Rainbow is a critical framework. founder of humanistic psychology.

RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE

• My World of Work -- Life Career Rainbow
• MindTools -- The Life Career Rainbow
• An Introduction to "Life Roles" by Robert E. Straby
• Life Roles, Values, and Careers: International Findings of the Work Importance Study by Donald E. Super, Branimir Sverko, and Charles M. Super