How the Japanese art of Kintsugi can help navigate your career

Kintsugi (金継ぎ), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い), is the art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage

The Japanese art of kintsugi (golden repair) is a method of repairing broken pottery that honors the its unique, imperfect history by emphasizing its cracks.

The discovery of kintsugi was an accident. Legend has it that when the 15th-century shogun (hereditary military dictator) Ashikaga Yoshimasa broke his favorite tea bowl, he sent it to China for repa…