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6  Keys  For  Living  Your  Dream  1.  Know  Thyself                2.  Failure  3.  Social  Capital  &  Networking  4.    Entrepreneurial  Thinking  5.    Life-­‐Long  Learning  6.    Weirdness  

 

Key  Skill  #1:    “Know  Thyself”  

   

“To  be  nobody  but  yourself  in  a  world  that's  doing  its  best  to  make  you  somebody  else,  is  to  fight  the  hardest  ba"le  you  are  ever  going  to  fight.  Never  stop  fighVng.”  

-­‐e.e.  cummings    

What  I  Love  To  Do  

What  I    Value  

What  I’m  Great  At  

What  Someone  Will  Pay  Me  For  

Your  Dream  Here  or  Ikigai  (eye-­‐KEY-­‐guy)  

Google:  “Personal  Values  Card  Sort”  

1.   The  “Time  Flies”  Test  2.   The  LoTery  ?  

How  much  do  you  need?  Can  you  feed  your  passion  and  keep  your  day  job?  

Key  Skill  #2:    Failure  

The  train  to  Awesometown  goes  through  Suckville.  

You  are  here  at  the  beginning  of  anything  new.  

Suckville   Awesometown  

Fail  Like  a  Pro!  •  Take  risk  as  an  opportunity  to  learn  •  Experiment  •  Give  it  your  all  •  If  you  succeed  –  are  you  failing  enough?  •  If  you  failed…  – Analyze  what  went  wrong  –  Fail  fast  –  Take  it  as  a  challenge  to  try  again  and  succeed  –  Treat  it  like  Edison  did  with  the  light  bulb  –  Share  it  –  KEEP  MOVING  FORWARD!!!  

Key  Skill  #3:    Social  Capital  &  Networking  

Social  Capital  &  Networking  •  “You  are  the  average  of  the  five  people  you  spend  the  most  Vme  with.    Choose  carefully.”                                      –Jim  Rohn  

•  “Companies  will  hire  enVre  teams.”  –  The  2020  Workplace  – “…teams  will  form  into  guilds”  –  The  2020  Workplace  •  This  is  already  happening  in  India  

–  Value  in  a  team  knowing  each  other’s  strengths  &  record  of  success  

•  Your  tribes  can  even  influence  your  health…  

What  is  Social  Capital?  

•  Social  capital  includes:  – Your  personal  brand  – Your  experVse  – Your  network  size  – Your  relaVonship  quality  within  that  network  (strong  vs.  weak)  

– Your  ability  to  leverage  the  network  along  with  your  experVse  to  develop  a  track  record  of  increased  business  value  to  organizaVons—online  and  offline.    (Ex:  crowdsourcing  a  project.)  

NEVER  Underes]mate  the  Power  of  Networking  

•  Networking  can  help  you  find  your  bliss!  •  It’s  also  more  like  farming,  less  like  hunVng.  •  When  networking,  best  quesVon  to  ask  the  other  person:  “What  are  YOU  passionate  about?”  

•  Network  up,  down,  and  across.  – Up:  people  will  push  you  – Down:  you’ll  polish  your  leadership  skills  – Across:  you’ll  get  potenVal  collaborators  for  cool  projects  

QuesVons  Recruiters  of  the  Future  Will  Ask  

•  Are  you  on  Facebook,  Twi"er,  YouTube,  LinkedIn,  etc.?  

•  How  many  followers  do  you  have  on  Facebook,  Twi"er,  YouTube,  LinkedIn,  etc.?  

•  How  many  of  these  followers  are  in  your  industry?    How  many  followers  are  outside  but  tangenVal  to  your  industry?  

•  How  or  have  you  turned  these  followers  into  business?  

•  Do  you  blog?  •  Your  last  collaboraVve  innovaVve  project  with  your  online  followers  was…?  

Example:  #SMDames13  

Key  Skill  #4:    Entrepreneurial  Thinking  

Intrapreneur   Entrepreneur  Employee  

Q:  Where  is  risk  on  this  spectrum?  

My  Entrepreneurial  Streak  

•  Pharm,  LLC  •  Yuspie,  LLC  •  Erinalbert.com  -­‐  wriVng  

Key  Skill  #5:    Life-­‐long,  Constant  and  Ubiquitous  

Learning  

Methods  of  Learning  •  TradiVonal  schools  –  offline  learning  •  Books,  Blogs,  Newspapers,  Periodicals  –  off  and  online  •  YouTube  •  Online  classes    

–  Coursera  –  Khan  Academy  –  EdX  –  Others  

•  Online  games  and  apps  •  Wearable  devices  •  SimulaVons  &  alternate  reality  –  almost  to  Trinity!  

In  the  Future…  •  It  won’t  just  be  what  you  know  today,  •  It  will  also  be  who  you  know  +  •  It  will  be  how  quickly  you  can  learn  something  new  on  your  own  +  

•  Your  willingness  to  adapt  to  new  technologies  +  

•  Constant  conVnuous  quality  improvement  with  applying  your  new  learning.  

Example:  Crowdfunding  

Crowdfunding,  cont.  

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Key  Skill  #6:    Weirdness  

•  Core  Value  #3:              Create  Fun  and  a  LiTle      

                                   Weirdness  

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Weird  Stuff  I  Did  in  2013  

WCS  Yale    

6  Keys  For  Living  Your  Dream  1.  Know  Thyself                2.  Failure  3.  Social  Capital  &  Networking  4.    Entrepreneurial  Thinking  5.    Life-­‐Long  Learning  6.    Weirdness  

 

The  end…    …or  is  it  just            the  beginning?  

Erin  Albert,  MBA,  PharmD,  JD  erinalbert.com  @ErinLAlbert