#techfest14 in ft. wayne, in 3/14/14 - keynote slides - dr. erin albert
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These were slides I utilized talking to 300 high school students on Living One's Dream at #TechFest14 in Ft. Wayne, IN on 3/14/14.TRANSCRIPT
Erin L. Albert erinalbert.com
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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.
erinalbert.com
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