Week 04: Contemplate
Module #4: Adaptability and Agility (July 14 - 20)
I. Essential Questions
- How do you navigate your life based on opportunity and not fear?
- How open are you to change?
- What is pivoting?
- What do we mean by retire retirement?
II. Introduction to Adaptability and Agility
As we discover and refine our Relevant Purpose and constantly grow and update ourselves as Economic Units of One, we must learn to do so within a constantly changing world. This journey of self-discovery, lifelong learning, transition, and navigating the world will require pivoting, shifting and ongoing modification of one's Life Road Map. Because of this, it is mandatory that we develop the 21st Century skills of agility and adaptability.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992)
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Intensifying the need for being agile and constantly adapting are the forces of the external market place of industry, of education, or changing job skills. The skills of agility and adaptability mean that you need to be open to change, use it to improve alignment between your inner passion and external realities (Relevant Purpose) and use it to improve your external reality by modifying and changing your personal brand (Economic Unit of One) and associated skill sets and experiences.
III. Key Terms
- Adaptability: The ability to adjust to new conditions or the ability to be modified for a new use or purpose.
- Agility: The ability to move quickly and easily and to think and understand quickly.
- Failing Forward: The greatest learning experiences come from mistakes and failures; the ability to use those experiences to create future success and happiness.
- Pivoting: While committed and relentless in pursuit of a vision, the act of consciously shifting course towards a modified goal, destination or mission, based on current fact and knowledge.
- Retiring Retirement: The concept that as life unfolds we should be finding ways to repurpose, redefine, reengage, and revitalize ourselves to be of greatest service to the world. A state where financial independence may lead to a reallocation of the Life Portfolio Buckets/Elements.
- Growth and Fixed Mindset: A fixed mind set is a basic underlying belief that some people hold that the qualities about themselves are fixed and will not change. They believe that the basic talent they have creates success; that effort and learning have little or no impact. They don't risk because they believe that nothing much can change in themselves or others. A growth mindset is a belief that we can constantly develop and improve ourselves; that we have talents but these are infinitely developable. They love and believe in learning and see change as possible. (Terms coined by Carol Dweck in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Links to an external site.)
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