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Mind Your Own Career: Your Guide to Right Working for Right Living can help you to explore important questions about how you, your work, your career and your life are integrated, and to understand, and even to change, the answers you find.

The guide lays a foundation with a basic philosophy and some practical tips for changing your answers to these questions, so your answers become more suitable for who you are, what you need and what you want – in your work, as well as in your larger life.

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“Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.” – Jules Henry Poincaré

An ideal working model has all of these attributes – it is Coherent, Insightful, Relevant, Cohesive, Useful, and Simple.

A coherent model fits smoothly with all of the events and circumstances which it serves to explain, to anticipate and to influence. Although the model ignores some aspects of reality and emphasizes others, it nonetheless acknowledges and respects the ignored reality to protect the integrity of the emphasized reality.

The coherent flight simulator creates scenarios that are consistent with real possibilities in the real world – there is no need to pilot a trillion ton aircraft upside down through Jello. There are no jagged edges between the model and the reality it represents. Remember the caveat that this is not just a model, but a working model.

An insightful model accounts for all the conditions surrounding the events and circumstances it describes. There is a place for everything, and everything is in its place. An insightful model reliably anticipates conditions and events.

The insightful paper airplane, respecting the aerodynamics of flight, is carefully folded into a symmetrical delta wing shape. A flat or crumpled piece of paper, tossed into the air, would simply waft or fall, never achieving the more elegant flight of the more insightful model.

A relevant model is most realistic with respect to whatever is most meaningful and important for you.

A relevant flight simulator is most realistic with respect to the cockpit and ignores other aspects of a real aircraft because what happens in the cockpit is most meaningful and important for training a pilot. A relevant paper airplane is most realistic with respect to the aerodynamics of flight because flight is most meaningful and important to a child.

A cohesive model has internal integrity. Each working and non-working part fits smoothly and consistently with all other parts. No essential component is left out, and no non-essential component is included.

The cohesive flight simulator is a real cockpit, with real instruments, real dials and real controls – there is no snack bar and home theatre system built in just for fun.

A useful model so effectively represents the reality it emphasizes and so effectively respects the reality it ignores that you can reliably use the model to anticipate and to influence both realities.

Your due diligence when making your models coherent, insightful, relevant and cohesive pays back many-fold in the usefulness of the working model. In fact, it is in its usefulness that a model truly becomes a working model.

A simple model emphasizes only what is most meaningful and important to make the complexities of the real world manageable without introducing complexities of its own.

Furthermore, the degree of emphasis on any particular aspect is consistent with the degree of its meaningfulness and importance. This is Ockham’s razor – a simple model does not multiply terms, concepts and assumptions beyond necessity. Each part of the model is exactly what is necessary and sufficient for explaining, anticipating and influencing a particular aspect of reality that is meaningful and important for you.