You Can’t Stop The Uncertainty at Work, But You Can Learn to Live in Flux
To face a world in constant flux, and prepare for a future of uncertainty at work, you need more than resiliency. April shares practical ways to live your life so that you’re prepared to better cope with (and thrive) no matter what comes at you.
In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with April Rinne, author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change.
8 Superpowers to help you prepare for Uncertainty at Work (and Life)
- Run slower.
- See what’s invisible.
- Get lost.
- Start with trust.
- Know your “enough.”
- Create your portfolio career.
- Be all the more human.
- Let go of the future.
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What inspired this book?
1:30 April recounts the moment over 25 years ago when her parents passed away from a car accident while she was in college.
4:00 How do you live your life prepared for whatever happens (not just respond.)
4:15 We tend to think about reacting to change. That’s not how flux works. It is about reshaping our relationship to change from the inside out. Change can be relentless.
5:15 People tend to think of resilience as elastic. It can also be plastic/clay. You are shaping new forms. Flux is more like plastic – we are forging new territory. There will be long periods of experimentation and iteration.
6:54 A look at getting grounded in yin. From a leadership perspective, the problems come from yang overdose. We need to balance that with more yin. Every person has yin and yang.
Let’s Talk about the Flux Superpowers
9:40 Eight superpowers to thrive during uncertainty at work.
10:15 April’s favorite superpower especially for this audience. The one that pulls them all together is “Start with Trust.”
11:30 “Learning How to Create Your Portfolio Career” is about seeing your career not as a path to pursue but a portfolio to curate
12:12 “Know Your Enough” gets at the heart of our obsession with more. It’s about what is your point of sufficiency – about not having to constantly strive for more (i.e. income, lifestyle, power.)
16:16 The Portfolio Career – set a directional intention but be open to emerging possibilities along the way; travel in a “cattywamply” way – purposeful toward a destination yet unknown
22:24 Don’t be the best, be the only. (Jerry Garcia) Only you are the combination of skills that you have.
24:20 What do you recommend to people who have been burned by negative circumstances in the past? When trust seems broken, assume good intent. Reset your default assumptions. “The average individual is trustworthy.” Also thinking about why/how the mistrust happened is helpful for growth and the future.
29:13 The book will be released August 24, 2021 (already available in audiobook.)
We are in a world in flux. There will be uncertainty at work. When everything is in flux, everything can benefit from a flux mindset.
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Your turn.
What would you add as #9? How do you prepare your heart and mind for uncertainty at work (and life)?
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