Post on 24-Jan-2017
Growing as a Creative Professional
APTWE: Free to do what?
Finn: You just do your own thing. Realize your potential.
Sun: How do you light a candle without a match?
APTWE: For now, I am the match and the candle.
Becoming the match & the candle
A professional is someone who can keep working at a high level of effort and ethics, no matter what is going on —for good or ill— around him or inside him. —Steven Pressfield
When it comes to our careers and our experience at work, we’ve become selfish. But in a good way. Getting paid is no longer enough; we expect to actually learn on the job. We want our skills to be fully utilized and are left unsatisfied by “easy jobs.” We want more responsibility… We expect to do more of what we love… —Scott Belsky
...the twenty-first-century career is more like a broad-faced rock that we are all free-climbing. —Jocelyn K. Glei
We haven’t solved this but some thought leaders have solved parts of it.
Clarity of Why
Discipline of How
Consistency of What
Clarity of Why
Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. —Paul Arden
How will the world be better off thanks to you having been on this earth?
What are your unique gifts and superpowers?
Who have you been when you’ve been at your best?
Who must you fearlessly become?Finding
Your Purpose and Living It
Keith Yamashita
…the more intimate we are with what we want, the more self-aware we will be about how we spend our time.
Great Work is what we all want more of. This is the work that is meaningful to you, that has an impact and makes a difference. It inspires, stretches, and provokes. Great Work is the work that matters.
www.DoMoreGreatWork.com
MAP 5: WHAT’S CALLING YOU?
Discipline of How
What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while. —Gretchen Rubin
Explore
Evaluate
Eliminate
Execute
Finding Your Work Sweet Spot
Scott Belsky
Zone of Maximum Impact
Focus
Relationships
Energy
Stimuli
Hours
Widen Your Options
Reality Test Your Assumptions
Attain Distance
Prepare to be Wrong
Widen Your Options Vanishing Options Test Multitracking
Reality Test Your Assumptions Ooching
Attain Distance 10/10/10 Advice to a Good Friend
Prepare to be Wrong Tripwire
Upholder Obliger Questioner Rebel
Lark vs. Owl Opener vs. Finisher Moderator vs. Abstainer •••
Inconvenience Pairing •••
ExternalExpectations
The Four Tendencies
UpholderQuestioner
Rebel Obliger
InternalExpectations
how we respond to expectations, according to Better Than Before
Consistency of What
The key is to learn to deliver upon expectations while continuing to push into uncomfortable places and forge new avenues of thought and work. —Todd Henry
If you’re building a product or service
HOW TO SET PRODUCT PRORITIES Bruce McCarthy Founder & Chief Product Person, UpUp Labs
General Assembly
(of course)
Ben Spear Consultant, Brand Strategy & Design
THE LEAN BRAND
Up and Running
PB: It’s a dang plug-n-play, girl.
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Begin anywhere. —Bruce Mau
…you have to kiss a lot of frogs. —Dean Kamen
Clarity of Why
Discipline of How
Consistency of What
Identity Who are you?
Vision Where are you headed?
Mastery How will you get there?
Begin anywhere. —Bruce Mau
Growth is painful, change is painful, but nothing is more painful than staying in the wrong place.
Additional Resources
15 Exercises 50+ Questions
Aptitudes Passions Happiness Attitude Tribe
Just read the book
Externalize Information
Direct the Rider
Motivate the Elephant
Shape the Path
…find the areas where you have the greatest potential to develop strengths.
Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories