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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.
Right Models
Right models help you to understand why things are the way they are and why things happen the way they do.
Right models help you to anticipate and to influence the way things are and the way things happen.
Your personal models - the models you have created, adopted, or adapted - help you to be more effective when navigating reality and truth.
You have one or more models that help you to understand, to anticipate and to influence how the world works – you may have different models for life at work and for life in general.
A model is a relatively simple representation of a more complex reality.
For example, a flight simulator is a working model of an aircraft. It represents the complex reality of the cockpit, monitoring the flight and operations of an aircraft that carries no passengers and does not fly.
A child’s paper airplane is also a working model of an aircraft. It represents the complex reality of the aerodynamics which enable things to fly. It has no control panel and carries no passengers, but it actually flies.
Since life in general may be more complex that life at work, you may choose to adopt a simpler model to represent your view of work than the one you with which you view life. Your life at work may be an airplane, made only of paper, which actually flies, describing short and erratic flight patterns. Your life in general may be a flight simulator, a comprehensive control panel monitoring a wide array of conditions to keep you educated and informed, which carries no passengers and never leaves the ground.
Your Personal Reflections on World and Work Views
Why are models important? What do models do for you and others?
What are some of the models you use? What models do you see others use?
What are the similarities and differences between your views of work and your views of life?
How do you characterize a world view or a work view that you usually believe?
Do you find that you adopt different world views or work views for different situations?
How easily can you be aware of your world view or work view in a particular situation? How easily can you adopt a modified, or a completely different, view?
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