Why Being Vulnerable at Work Is a Good Thing

Why Being Vulnerable at Work Is a Good ThingWhy Being Vulnerable at Work Is a Good Thing Lets be honest No matter how successful or advanced, every pro was once an amateur . At some point, they needed the one thing very few people like to admit they need Help.Asking for help means allowing yourself to be vulnerable, but being vulnerable goes against just about every business or professional training Ive ever received. I was taught to show everyone I was strong - that I could handle it all on my own. Yet, when I decided to move from Florida to New York, I was drowning in my own pride.Asking for help can be uncomfortable. But its important to remember that otzu sichs have gone before you and have achieved the level of success you desire (or at least somewhere close to it). Theyre part of your success GPS. After all, getting from point A to B is easiest with a guide. You can activate your GPS by asking for help, whether its about business development, networking, sala ry negotiations or professional snafus.During my move to New York, I had to ask for help. It was the best decision Ive made to date. I had saved what I thought was a considerable amount of money to become a full-time entrepreneur, but after 90 days of living in NYC, I didnt have enough clients to maintain my living expenses. I was out of cash. I reached out to a sponsor and friend and, through strained tears, I explained what happened and that I needed help finding a job. She connected me to one of her contacts who was managing Disney star Zendaya Colemans new fashion line. I interviewed on a Tuesday and began as the strategic marketing director for Daya by Zendaya that following Thursday. Ive worked with the brand for more than a year, simply because I asked for help .Asking for help requires the one thing business school doesnt teach you how to be vulnerable enough to admit you need support. unterstellung five tips will show you how to use your vulnerability to progress in your career, no matter which stage or phase of life youre in.There are three key relationships every professional should cultivate. Its difficult to ask for help if youve isolated yourself. Your success in life is directly connected to the relationships youve developed. Understand that building connections take time, so youll need to invest in these relationships before you ask for a favor. Think of these relationships as a garden. Before you can enjoy the fruit from it, youll first have to plant the seeds. These three types of relationships are game-changers for your careerIn order to truly ask for help and clearly articulate your needs, you have to be honest with yourself first. During my move, I had to get real I didnt have enough clients to cover my business expenses. Honestly articulating your needs allows your berater , sponsor or fairy godparent to provide the right type of help at the right time.No one can read your mind. You will have to ask for what you need. And you will ne ed to do it as clearly and directly as possible. First, pick up the phone, or ask to meet in person. This isnt a text conversation . Then, when you get ready to make your ask, condense it to no more than two 140-character tweets. Your mentor, sponsor and/or fairy godparent are busy people. Deciphering what you truly need takes time away from them actually helping you. Do the pre-work to ensure youre able to clearly articulate your needs.Yes, you need help, but in the spirit of being an asset to whoever you meet, always bring something of value to the relationship. In the development of each of the relationships identified above, do your homework on each person, so when you connect you can bring something of value to help them too.After your initial ask, schedule a reminder in your calendar to follow up on your request two weeks later if no progress has been made. If things have still not progressed by then, allow an additional two weeks. Be sure to include a reminder of what was di scussed, what you need and how grateful you are for his or her time assisting you. If you still see no progression, connect with the person once a week sending helpful articles relevant to his or her industry or desires. This will keep you top of mind while serving as a reminder of what you need. If you do get the help you need, dont forget to follow up with a thank-you note that updates them on your progress.If you remember nothing else, remember this People can do a lot of things, but they cant read minds. Asking for help can be uncomfortable, yes, but your greatest growth is usually found outside of your comfort zone. When you need help, you have to say so.This article originally appeared on The Well , Jopwells digital magazine. The Well is the digital magazine of Jopwell, the career advancement platform for Black, Latino/Hispanic and Native American professionals and students. Subscribe to receive weekly stories and advice in your inbox.

Why you should compare apples and oranges

Why you should compare apples and orangesWhy you should compare apples and orangesMany idioms in English have flummoxed me since I started learning the language in middle school. But one tops the list comparing apples and oranges. The first time I heard the phrase in my freshman year of college, it stopped me in my tracks. The conversation went something like thisThats like comparing apples and oranges.So what?You cant compare the twoFollow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreWait, what? What do you mean I cant compare the two?Theyre too different.At this point, dear reader, you may want to turn around and look away. Im about to compare apples and oranges.Theyre both fruits. Theyre both round. They both have a slight tangy taste. Theyre about the same size. And they both grow on trees.Yes, theres more that unites apples and oranges than divides them. (Scott Sanford of the NASA Ames Researc h Center took this comparison a step further. He used infrared spectrometry to compare a Granny Smith apple and a Sunkist orange and showed that the spectra of the two fruits are strikingly similar. The study, with the tongue-in-cheek titleApples and Oranges A Comparison, welches published in the satirical scientific magazine,Improbable Research.).Yet, the idiom thrives because, as human beings, were terrible at seeing connections between seemingly dissimilar things, however minor their differences might be. Instead, we compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. In our professional lives, we look to the competitors in our own industry and copy from their playbooks. In our personal lives, we adopt the fashion sense of our friends and echo their political views. We use idioms like apples and oranges to stop the comparison conversation before it even begins.But to me, theres little to be learned from comparing similar things. Breakthroughs happen when we see the similarity in the dissimilar and combine and recombine apples and oranges into a creative soup.Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected, wrote William Beveridge in his 1957 book,The Art of Scientific Investigation. Decades later, Steve Jobs echoed the same sentiment Creativity is just connecting things, he said. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didnt really do it, they just saw something.Albert Einstein called this idea combinatory play, which he believed is the essential feature in productive thought. Combinatory play, as Elizabeth Gilbertdescribes it, is the act of opening up one mental channel by dabbling in another. During moments of difficulty, Einstein would grab his violin and play Mozart to decipher the music of the cosmos.Steve Jobs borrowed from calligraphy to create multiple typefaces and proportionally spaced fonts on the Macintosh. Leonardo da Vincis inspiration for art and tec hnology also came from the outsidein his case, nature. Larry Page and Sergey Brin adopted an idea from academiathe frequency of citations to an academic paper indicates its popularityand applied it to search engines to create Google. In crafting his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin was inspired by the economist Thomas Malthus, who argued that populations tend to outgrow resources, creating a competition for survival.Darwin then began to ponder which populations are better situated than others to survive. In creating the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg was inspired by the equipment used for pressing wine grapes.Great musicians also use combinations. Iron Maidens music combines the unlikely elements of Shakespeare, history, and heavy metal. The late David Bowie was a master at re-mixing. As David Moldawerwrites, Bowie would assemble chunks of text from various sources, cut them up, and rearrange them to forge lyrics with surprising and memorable combinations of words, images, id eas. The legendary record producer Rick Rubintells his bandsnot to listen to popular songs while they produce an album. Instead, he says that theyre better off drawing inspiration from the worlds greatest museums than finding it in the current Billboard charts.But we cant combine ideas if we dont see the similarities between them. Most of us remain in our humanities track or science track and shut off our minds to concepts from across the aisle.Life, it turns out, doesnt happen in compartmentalized silos.Whats ordinary in one field is extraordinary in the other. A revolution in one industry can begin with the adoption of an idea from another. Yes, in many cases, the fit wont be perfect. But the mere act of comparison will spark new lines of thinking.The next time someone accuses you of comparing apples and oranges, wear it as a badge of honor. And dont stop with apples and oranges. If youre a doctor, attend a conference for real estate professionals. If youre an English major, learn about quantum mechanics. If your day job is an engineer, pick up a copy of Homers Odyssey.When it comes to unleashing originality, nothing beats the cross-pollination of ideas from seemingly different places.Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned law professor and bestselling author.Click hereto download a free copy of his e-book, The Contrarian Handbook 8 Principles for Innovating Your Thinking. Along with your free e-book, youll get the Weekly Contrarian - a newsletter that challenges conventional wisdom and changes the way we look at the world (plus access to exclusive content for subscribers only).This article first appeared on OzanVarol.com.

This is the grossest place in the airport

This is the grossest place in the airportThis is the grossest place in the airportAnyone who manages to not get sick after traveling on a tuch, even if it is only an hour-long domestic flight, has the immune system of a superman. Lets face it Airports are cesspools of germs just waiting to infect us.But when you think of the absolute grossest places in the airport most of us would maybe think of the plane or the waiting area gates or maybe somewhere in the bathroom as the most germ-filled places, but that would be wrong. Nope, the real danger is pretty much the first stop you make when you arrive at the airport the ticket kiosk.According to InsuranceQuotes.com, the kiosks have mora than 1,475 times the amount of bacteria than your houses toilet seat. Gross. Check out the infographic below for some more details on the germiest airplane surfaces.To determine this the research teamconducted 18 tests across six surfaces from three major U.S. airports and airline flights. They found that the average self check-in screen had 253,857 CFU (colony-forming units) which is more than 11 times the average CFU of an airline gate armrest and 13 times the average CFU of an airport water fountain button. In other words, you should be wearing latex gloves and a face mask when you go to print your boarding pass.When you are at the kiosk the most common type of germs you will come in contact with are gram-positive cocci (organisms that can create an infection consisting of, containing, or discharging pus), gram-positive rods (probiotic bacteria that can also be pathogenic) and yeast. Check out more of the germs that are all over the airport in the infographic below.

The Beret in U.S. Military Uniform History

The Beret in U.S. Military Uniform HistoryThe Beret in U.S. Military Uniform HistoryIn the United States military, forces have worn distinctive uniform items for centuries to create a psychological advantage and boost their esprit de corps, but the military use of berets is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Blue Bonnet became a de facto symbol of Scottish Jacobite forces.The French Chasseurs alpins, created in the early 1880s, are recognized as the first regular unit to wear the military beret as their standard headgear. One of the reasons that the beret is attractive to the military as a uniform item is that they are cheap, easy to make in large numbers and can be manufactured in a wide range of colors.From the soldiers view, the beret can be rolled up and stuffed into a pocket (or beneath a shirt epaulet) without damage, and it can be worn while wearing headphones. Military berets are usually pushed to the right to free the shoulder that bears the rifle on most soldiers (though some countrys armies mostly Europe, South America and Iran have influenced the push to the left). The widespread use of the beret among Western armies didnt begin until the 20th century when French tank crews in World War I wore the small Basque version and a larger, floppier variety. United Kingdom and United States Beret History The military popularity of berets soared during the World War II era when various British units donned the headgear in several colors including a khaki brown variety adopted by Special Air Services troops and a maroon variety worn by Britains first airborne force, the Parachute Regiment, that became affectionately known as the cherry berry. Berets Debut in U.S. Military The first use of the modern beret in the U.S. military was in 1943 when an Army battalion of the 509th Parachute Infantry was given maroon berets by their British counterparts for their service in the war. Though it never stuck, the use of the beret started out as a headgear that designated a special service of the military member and it still continues to have that same designation somewhat. The first widespread use of the headgear by U.S. forces came a few decades later, when a new Army Special Forces unit was developed.They became the special organization that was trained for insurgency and counter-guerrilla warfare and began (unofficially) wearing a green variety in 1953. It took another eight years for the Armys Special Forces - the Green Berets - to win presidential approval from John F. Kennedy to make their headgear official, and in 1961 the green beret of the US Army Special Forces was formally adopted. In the 1970s, Army policy allowed local commanders to encourage morale-enhancing uniform distinctions, and the use of berets boomed. Armor personnel at Fort Knox, Ky., wore the traditional British black beret, while U.S. armored cavalry regiments in Germany wore the black beret with a red and white oval. Troops of t he 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., started wearing the maroon beret in 1973, while at Fort Campbell, KY, the trend exploded with post personnel wearing red, military polizze donning light green, and the 101st Airborne Division taking light blue as their color.AtFt. Richardson, AK, the 172nd Infantry Brigade began using an olive green beret. In 1975, the Airborne Rangers got approval from the Army Chief of Staff to use the black beret as their official headgear. Over the next few years, the whole thing got out of hand, so in 1979 senior Army officials put on the brakes. Army leadership allowed the Rangers to keep their black berets.In 1980, airborne troops were allowed to continue wearing the maroon version. But all other beret varieties were declared off-limits. Air Force Berets The use of berets in the Air Force began in the 1970s. In 1979, enlisted personnel in theTactical Air Control Party(TACP) AFSC (job) were authorized to wear the black beret. In 1984, two air men from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina submitted a design for the flash and crest design, which was approved for all TACP airman in 1985. Air Liaison Officers (ALOs) were also authorized to wear the black beret after they graduated from the Joint Firepower Control Course, conducted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Instead of the crest, they wear their rank insignia on the beret.Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLOs) wereauthorized to wear the black beret in the Air Force, as well. Now, every Air Force Battlefield Airmen (AF Special Ops) were a beret to signify their job. Present-Day Beret These days, the United States is on the low end of the spectrum among NATO allies in terms of the variety of berets worn by their military forces. While most countries have four or five colors authorized for various military segments, Turkey, Greece, and Luxembourg have authorized only three colors for various segments of their forces. Belgium has seven and the United Kingdom has the mos t variation with nine. On Oct. 17, 2001, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki announced that the black beret would become standard Army headgear in the following year. The rationale was to use the sense of pride that the beret had long represented to the Rangers to foster an attitude of excellence among the entire Army as it moved forward with its sweeping transformation effort to a lighter, more deployable, more agile force.This decision, however, set off a firestorm in both the active-duty and veteran Ranger community as well as in the Armys other two special operations camps, the Special Forces and the airborne. In 2002, the Army made the tan-color beret the official beret of the U.S. Army Rangers, and all Army soldiers began wearing the black beret. In June 2011, Army Secretary John McHugh announced that the traditional patrol cap was to be worn with the utility uniform. However, the black beret may be authorized with utility uniforms at a commanders discretion for special cer emonies, and the beret remains part of the Armys dress uniform for all units. Current Army Berets Black- Worn by all other Army troops with Class A uniform and Army Service Uniform as standard headgear.Maroon- Airborne-designated units (the maroon beret is an organizational item, so it is worn by all assigned soldiers, airborne-qualified or not)TanBuckskin - 75th Ranger Regiment, Ranger Training Brigade (Light infantry)Green- Special Forces Groups, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (Commando, officer) Current Air Force Berets Black- Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Air Liaison Officers (ALO), and Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLO)Maroon- Combat Rescue Officers andPararescuemen(PJs)Red(scarlet) -Combat Controllers Special Tactics OfficersRoyal Blue-Security Forces and United States Air Force Academy First-Class Cadets Basic Cadet Training cadreGrey-Special Operations Weather TechnicianGreen- Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) Specialists

New Article Reveals the Low Down on Resume Building Tips and Why You Must Take Action Today

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