Professional Development

The problem with most professional development is how quickly its effects fade. We go to a seminar, listen to someone talk, or attend a conference. We get all fired up about some new principle of personal change and growth.

Ready to change, we return back home.

Most often, however, we realize that things do not change the way we hoped they would. Changing ourselves is more difficult than we expected. After a while, we start drifting dangerously close to where we started.

Back at square one, we wonder what is wrong.

What to do about this? I am thinking someone needs to write this book: How the Next Principle of Success Turns Into Another Principle of Failure.

Or maybe we should stop trying to change ourselves? What if we started to become fascinated with things that are not ourselves?

That is precisely what I suggest we do.

I mean, look at the kind of professional breakthroughs that happened because Niels Bohr was fascinated with atoms, Barbara McClintock with microbes, Bob Dylan with Woody Guthrie, Albert Einstein with energy, and Pablo Picasso with color.

We have something important to learn from these people. Namely that their professional success grew out of a fascination with something other than themselves.

If we desire the kind of professional breakthrough they had, we must fall in love with the world outside ourselves. Even though we may not reach their levels, we function no differently than they. Our potential, talent and unique intelligence is waiting to be released. Just like theirs were. Why not build a professional career on that?

I am devoted to the promotion of professional development projects that take us in that direction. If you want to know more, please contact me.