No. 26: Beyoncé quits, how people think, and 18 career-shaping trends
What happens now when Beyoncé writes a song about The Great Resignation?
First, some numbers:
4.3 million - quit their jobs in May
40% - of workers planning to leave their jobs
Top 3 - reasons for leaving their jobs: workplace flexibility, career development and advancement, and adequate compensation
Resigning the prescribed path to uncover new one
Business media and financial news have been covering The Great Resignation since the pandemic, but when it becomes the theme in Beyoncé’s latest single, Break My Soul, you know it’s hit the zeitgeist.
Damn, they work me so damn hard
Work by nine, then off past five
And they work my nerves
That's why I cannot sleep at nightI'm lookin' for motivation
I'm lookin' for a new foundation, yeah
And I'm on that new vibration
I'm buildin' my own foundation, yeah
Hold up, oh, baby, babyYou won't break my soul (na, na)
You won't break my soul (no-no, na, na)
You won't break my soul (no-no, na, na)
You won't break my soul (na, na)
I'm tellin' everybody, na, na
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody
So……what’s your next move?
How People Think (17 Ways)
This article is one adults will read and say to themselves, “I wish I read this years ago.” For young people, I hope you’ll absorb its value sooner than later.
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One hundred billion people have walked this planet.
Nearly eight billion of them are alive today.
Each has a story, few have a microphone.
Each has seen something different and thought something unique. Most know something you can’t fathom, and you have experienced stuff they wouldn’t believe.
But so many behaviors are universal across generations and geographies. Circumstances change, but people’s reactions don’t. Technologies evolve, but insecurities, blind spots, and gullibility rarely does.
Read Morgan Housel’s 17 common aspects of How People Think
18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022
Compiled back in December 2021 before inflation and the market crash hit us, these trends still hold.
My 3 favorites:
Digitally-Native Jobs (via Rex Woodbury): Today’s graduates are expected to hold between 15 and 20 jobs over the course of a career. Many of these jobs haven’t been invented yet: by 2030 85% of today’s college students will have jobs that don’t currently exist.
Simulations for Teaching Tacit Skills (via Tom Critchlow): “Tacit knowledge can be defined as skills, ideas, and experiences that are possessed by people but are not codified and may not necessarily be easily expressed.”
It turns out that the most effective way to acquire tacit knowledge is not through “professional development” programs. Research shows that the best way to learn these nebulous and hard-to-teach skills is through simulation.
Speed of Learning & The Future of Income (via Mercedes Bent): The greatest income arbitrage exists when an emerging new form of income develops and few have the skills and platform knowledge to transact. To keep up with the increasingly fast rate of change, people will need to learn new skills faster than ever. This has made the speed of learning become the most prized skill someone can focus on improving as they pursue the future of income.
Read all 18 trends at The Jungle Gym
Till next time…
Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Issac Asimov