Pausing – The step you might be missing in your creative process
If you’re like me, you love creating new stuff. Starting new projects fuels your curiosity and love for learning. Maybe you also have this tendency when discovering a new topic: going all-in. I don’t know for you, but it seems to serve me wrong sometimes. Let me explain. Becoming a bit obsessive about a topic – there is clearly no other word to describe how focused I become about those new “passions” of mine – often leaves me overwhelmed, feeling like I’m drowning into information (literature, scientific research, experts or even podcasts & youtube videos etc.)
Are we dodging essential orientation questions because of FOMO?
"We learn at school that we should be ashamed to work some jobs like pastry cooking, masonry or carpenting. But years later, we realise some people chose to change paths to work those jobs." WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? FOMO (Fear O ...
Are we our occupations?
Knowing that 85% of 2030 jobs don’t exist yet, I started to wonder how relevant was school to help us grow in a certain professional direction. This all the more intriguing since with internet, self-learning has never been more easy (through MOOCs, videos, newsletters and other snackable content). But maybe it’s value lies somewhere else.
Being a young graduate in 2020
Being part of this population – the graduates to be batch of 2020 – I am still trying to figure out whether this year has been a disaster in terms of professional development or not. Indeed, with a pandemic at hand, the least we could say is: this year has been a rocky ride. For those like whose graduation date coincided with COVID, advice like “preparing your entry on the job market” lost all of its value. It’s simple: nothing went according to (our career) plan.
What did I learn after working 5 months as a facilitator?
It’s been almost 5 months since I started my job as a full-time on/offline facilitator and coordinator at makesense for their Sprint program.
Among its many characteristics, the Sprint happens to be delivered 100% online ever since its creation – at the end of 2018. I thought I might share some of my takeaways on the topic for the aspiring facilitators out there
La toolbox de l’orientation
J’ai mis au point une toolbox de l’orientation. Ces outils sont un peu mes brassards, ma bouée de sauvetage en période de doute. J’ai accumulé pléthore de liens et références au fil des années, et je me suis dit qu’il était temps de faire le tri. J’espère que tu y trouveras ton bonheur !
WORK – TASK OR PASSION?
« It’s ok if you decide to go work at EY for 3 years and lose some sense of passion / purpose on your compass… as long as you know WHY you’re doing it » «If you’re passionate about what you do, you’ll eventually be more engaged and efficient ...
SOFT SKILLS
4 – DO YOU HAVE A VISION?
Note: this article was redacted in 1h during an "imperfection challenge" I'm pursuing this month. More on this later! When is the best time to do things?Who is the most important one?What is the right thing to do?Tolstoy The three questions ...
Our Millennials Today, genesis
Don’t get me wrong, diploma with a sprinkle of relevant experiences matters even more, but experience without a diploma… is not really considered as suchIf you don’t like the story, it’s YOUR responsibility to write a new oneRichard Saint ...
SOFT-SKILLS
3 – TRAIN HARDER, CREATE MORE
Practise makes perfect ancient proverb Forging makes a blacksmith French proverb WHO'S CREATIVE? "The more you have, the more you use" We’ve all heard this phrase (or a similar one), randomly shouted by our famo ...