Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Means, motive, opportunity
1/16-baked idea.
When teachers and counselors advise on job choice, they correctly consider basic talent and passion. They miss the most important determiners: STATUS and RESOURCES.
You may have good social strategy talent and a will to lead. If you don't have some combination of attractiveness and impressiveness, you won't be a leader.
You may have excellent math skills and a passion for detail. If you don't live in a place where bookkeepers or engineers can be trained on the job (resources), or if you aren't in a culture that respects math (status), you won't be a bookkeeper or engineer.
A good formulation would run parallel to the old method of judging the probability of a crime. Means, motive and opportunity.
If you have the skills, resources and status needed to accomplish X, you'll accomplish X. If any element is missing, you shouldn't waste time preparing for X.
Labels: skill-estate
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