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Stephen Downes

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John Hagel advises us how to be creative and passionate workers. I quote:

  • no one else, no matter how wise, rich, or well intentioned, can decide how we should spend our lives.
  • we will need to step off the well-trodden trail and blaze our own.
  • we must never compromise growth for short term efficiencies.
  • we find better ways to share and exchange knowledge.
  • we don't exist for institutions, they exist for us.
  • give up the corner office, fancy car or anything else of little consequence that may be holding us back from pursuing our passions.
  • master the delicate art of deciding what's not most important to us and letting them go.
  • no one ever regrets taking the path that leads to the better story.
  • people who change the world are out at the edge of their field, pushing back the boundaries of the unknown.
  • only as we continually reinvent ourselves can we start to discover and reach our full potential.
  • never settle.

It's a nice list for people who have options. As for the rest of us, well, we have to make our own passions in a more subtle and less in-your-face manner.

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