Are you an initiator or a responder? Tom Rath on thriving in the age of AI

What if the thing you spend the most time on at work&nbsp;won't&nbsp;matter at all when&nbsp;you're&nbsp;gone?&nbsp; It's&nbsp;a confronting question, but&nbsp;it's&nbsp;the kind Tom Rath&nbsp;lives with&nbsp;deliberately. He walks past a 10,000-headstone cemetery near his home in Washington DC and has never once seen a grave mention social media followers, email response times, or job titles. Yet these are the things most of us spend our days chasing.&nbsp; In this episode, I sit down with Tom Rath, one of the most widely read authors in the world of work and wellbeing and the man behind StrengthsFinder 2.0, How Full Is Your&nbsp;Bucket?,&nbsp;and his just-released book What's the Point? Tom challenges the "follow your passion" narrative head-on and makes the case that purpose&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;a grand discovery waiting for you someday.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;what you do for other people, hour by hour, throughout the day.&nbsp; We get into the single question Tom uses every morning to&nbsp;reprioritise&nbsp;his time, how to escape the comparison trap that platforms like LinkedIn are designed to pull you into, and why he believes the so-called initiators are the ones who will thrive in the age of AI.&nbsp; Tom and I discuss:&nbsp; Why "follow your passion" is misguided advice, and what Tom recommends doing instead when thinking about work and career&nbsp; The statistics on how much of our career path we unconsciously inherit from our parents, and what to do about it&nbsp; How strengths only really come to life when&nbsp;they're&nbsp;turned outward in service of another person&nbsp; Tom's "what's the point?" question and how to use it daily to&nbsp;reprioritise&nbsp;your time and cut through distraction&nbsp; Why resume virtues and eulogy virtues are so different, and how walking through cemeteries has sharpened Tom's thinking on what matters&nbsp; Social comparison as the single biggest tax on your sense of progress at work, and how to reduce its grip&nbsp; <li aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3"