2021-09-07
15 分钟Whether they are academics, designers, medical professionals, or anything in between, our guests are leaders in their fields whose expertise goes beyond their TED and TEDx talks. Unsurprisingly, they’ve garnered wisdom on how to navigate or forge a successful career. In today’s episode, organizational psychologist David Burkus, management professor Christine Porath, and Hollywood executive Franklin Leonard share powerful ideas and accessible strategies for anyone looking for thoughtful career advice.
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I'm Chris Duffy, and this is how to be a better human.
Now, for most people, a part of being human is having to work.
It is a big part of who we are and what we do.
And since the guests that we've had on this show are at the top of their fields in their respective careers, it's no surprise that they have had great insights and how we can make the most out of the time we spend making our money.
So on today's show, we are going to go deep into career advice.
This is something that I personally love to talk about, and I love to hear how other people think about this.
And to start us off, here's a clip from my conversation with author David Berkus about the huge role that people other than us play in our careers.
The problem with the people that we're closest to is that we often share the same information, right?
So if you're just talking to your closest contacts, your deep, close friends, coworkers you've been working with for a really long time, and then maybe you all were unexpectedly laid off, you might not be in a situation that's really going to grow your thinking.
And this is where a lot of people who know networks are important then jump to, well, let's meet lots of new people.
Let's meet perfect strangers.
Well, perfect strangers do have more information, but I mean, for one thing, it's super awkward to do that.
Let's just admit.
Yeah, right.
And then for the other thing, it's difficult to know who you could actually be beneficial for, who could be helpful to you.
You're just sort of meeting everybody and hoping that serendipity has a role.
Well, you're weak and dormant ties people you know already but haven't kept up with, they're somewhere else in the world, they're somewhere else.
In the far reaches of your network, they're just as likely as strangers to have that new information.
And the rapport building, the awkwardness, it's still there a little bit, but not as much as having to go to sort of a, I used to call these networking hours, but now they're sort of Zoom meetup hours that are ten times more awkward than the actual cocktail party that we all dreaded going to used to be.