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It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

There’s lots of career advice to let your purpose guide your career aspirations. But what if you don’t actually know what your purpose is? Here are steps you can take to sort out what your overarching ...