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 === What is success? ===
+‘Each of them - as is often the way with men who have selected careers of
+different kinds - though in discussion he would even justify the other's career,
+in his heart despised it.’
+Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina 1877)
+== Difficult to define success ==
   - People are different, so notions of success are also different
   - "Medicine" as a vocation is "often treated as an entity"; while training is quite uniform, practice is not
-  - Broadly: "Career success can be defined as the positive work-related and positive psychological outcomes of an individual's experiences over the course of their working life. It can be extrinsic, measured objectively in terms of material rewards such as pay and promotion to high-status and prestigious jobs. It can also be intrinsic, measured subjectively in terms of the psychological rewards received such as inherent enjoyment of one's work, attainment of personal goals, and satisfaction of personal values."
+== One definition (Woolf and McManus) ==
+  - Broadly: "Career success can be defined as the **positive work-related** and positive **psychological** //outcomes// of an individual's experiences over the course of their working life. It can be extrinsic, measured objectively in terms of material rewards such as pay and promotion to high-status and prestigious jobs. It can also be intrinsic, measured subjectively in terms of the psychological rewards received such as inherent enjoyment of one's work, attainment of personal goals, and satisfaction of personal values."
   - correlation between intrinsic and extrinsic success is only moderate
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 === Self-determination theory ===
-  - 3 universal psychological needs: Autonomy (have choice), Relatedness (have friends), Competence (is good)
+  - 3 universal **psychological needs**: Autonomy (have choice), Relatedness (have friends), Competence (is good)
 === int vs ext success ===
-intrinsic vs extrinsic goals
+=== intrinsic vs extrinsic goals ===
+  - knowledge of self, job & career path (know)
-    - knowledge of self, job & career path (know) :: self efficacy - [[personality]] type?
+    - self efficacy - [[personality]] type?
-    - ability to reflect on & plan around knowledge (do) :: personality big 5 <<big5>>
+  - ability to reflect on & plan around knowledge (do)
-         - OCEAN :: Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
+    - personality big 5
-  - Socio-cognitive career theory SCCT
+       - OCEAN: Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
-  - self-determination theory (SDT): autonomy, relatedness, competence
-  - sponsored mobility :: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsored_mobility][Wikipedia definition]] vs contest mobility
+=== Socio-cognitive career theory SCCT ===
+  - based on Bandura's Socio-Cognitive Theory of Behaviour: the reciprocal influences of behaviour and thought on each other
+  - depends on **self-efficacy**, outcome expectations and goals
+=== Sponsored mobility ===
+  - those with potential are identified by elite and given support to progress
+  - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsored_mobility|Wikipedia definition]] vs contest mobility
+=== See also ===
+  * [[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/sites/medical-education/files/2011-WoolfMcManusCareersChapter0FinalPreProof.pdf|Link to pdf]]

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