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Kaihan Krippendorff on career evolution and why you should start looking at your path as a river
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It's Tuesday you know that means career accelerator day we hope -- -- -- on the right track to getting the job you want some -- in many thanks for joining us.
We'll start today with K -- could conduct a career Coach and an author thanks for coming on and joining us thanks for him 'cause -- -- doing great thanks -- rates -- a year help us to determine if we're on the right career path but you -- say the entire career path looks lake a river yeah an excellent no matter.
What's very helpful because many times.
Just before an inflection point -- your career you've reached this point physicist was well reinvesting a lot of energy.
You're putting a long hours you're studying and you feel -- you working hard but.
You're not getting that raise -- not -- that next promotion right and so that's a difficult part to manage and I think if you think of your career as a river.
You get some insights that will help tell you yes I'm on the right path or.
Maybe there's something that should change I said sticking with that terminology that metaphor how do you increase the flow America -- -- that's been what do you do yet best to keep increasing the flow.
The flow with -- river represents how much money you're making and how much fulfillment your -- to increase the flow over river what you need to -- was one of two things we do both things.
First you need to get.
-- river to flow down -- steeper slope to slope faster.
And water flows from high to low in the -- higher than ingredient the faster -- and need to widen the river to increase the amount of water that flows and what that represents is.
The -- is how much value you're creating.
Hum are people -- to come to force and level of some expertise -- as of your gold various destruct becoming uniquely valuable.
-- to become essential and yes.
Become essential evidence.
And then has signed an area of expertise may -- that you really passionate about it honestly have an edge over other people avenue has always told them and let's find some lending mayor really good at yeah I think -- -- freak thing too little -- for -- identified -- found that area right the first is are you passionate about it and the second is or your skills.
Consistent with the can you be the rest static and the third is is it important to usually that means are you is news -- money there's there is.
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And it doesn't feel like you're.
Putting all the hours and liquidity you put even more -- and people get it clearly says that make sure you love your -- say don't mind when the alarm going off and doing it every day yes yes I -- with a moments and there are -- you might hate the job he really -- Right yeah.
So there's another way to determine if your -- on the and the white the right pat can you say wide in the river here.
Create new ways to distribute your value -- -- about as well right exactly because that is if you start -- Increase your value become kind of what cookbook.
In river that is flowing quickly as a -- -- at the top of the river I'm waiting to burst.
That's what you wanna do then is start opening up that -- him.
Find new channels which which distribute -- -- -- find out who has -- -- experts say exactly find out who else values your expertise what.
And and also what clients outside of your immediate clients inside your company might -- your your expertise through -- -- can you contribute.
-- too new to you -- your company yeah and that's you saw in the event that you lose a job and you need to figure out OK I need terror really reach out now.
And get myself.
Exposed tend to find another job particularly in this summer I can't exactly.
Then you start developing relationships people who know US and expert -- what you're an expert -- the outside your company and that creates a network can one of these days I'll sit down on discount rate.
-- and can you and might just put all -- things I can -- can also put DO kind of discipline myself kind of piece of paper -- To stay here -- Altria does the work is just sit down and to start making lists of what you love to do what you're great act and what.
We think you might make your money that they're so interesting jobs out there -- -- don't automatically sync I think this is particularly important for young people and Maria you know you.
Everyone wants to be a lawyer and doctor but there are so many other -- lesser known jobs that unites.
Work and that's why I think following your passion is the -- look at people who created really unique -- and wealthy due to follow that passion like this is famous.
Speak to Steve Jobs where -- -- -- when he was college student he took a class on type setting.
And that turned into becoming.
Why he could make the first Apple Computer -- follow your passion and that leads you to have a skill that no one else thought to have because their career Coach didn't tell them.
You need to learn that -- So that they look to do at the end of that they find that they have the unique skill set which -- -- credit.
The current health care about our live healthy come to think competition and telling me generation strategist sees options others say no or yes it is my fourth book can only work around stress thanks very much moment workers around strategy -- -- -- competition what I discovered was.
There are certain type of people call -- -- -- people who are able to see strategic options others don't seem to on this fast career.
-- whether -- entrepreneurs are there.
Rising rapidly inside their corporation I think what it comes down to those things like this shifting your perspective.
Understanding.
What how you create value and find new ways -- credit.
Thank you so much and I commend her career Coach and -- -- we'll show your website.
Kind of time and dot net.
Thank you very much thank you for coming on today.
