For me, it’s personal.
For me, it’s personal. Many founders are looking for a business idea, and that’s fine.
For my part, I am looking for a life plan, and my purpose is to solve a problem that I have, it’s personal.
The frustration of spending all day looking for interactions on different social networks is exhausting. I see my friends trying to be seen at all costs waiting for the miracle without clearly focusing on what they have to offer.
Maybe it is not about branding yourself “Open to Work” on Linkedin like in a modern slave trade show.
It is about being “Open to Help,” and there you will see opportunities open up much more and in a more durable way.
The current crisis does not change the youngest, and very often, I see the older ones innovate more. As if the silvers were now the ones who connect more with the future of humanity.
I don’t want to attract some of my friends Millenials withering look, convinced that they are in the vanguard of an economy that no longer exists. I am referring to a general attitude always to keep doing the same thing despite bad results.
I owe 100% of my success to the relationships I have built in my life and the people I have helped, listened to, accompanied, and helped me.
Lasting relationships are not party friendships or bar and club buddies. They are very long-term relationships, deep and silent as the air you breathe. Those relationships are built like long-term investments with no EXIT and with total reciprocity. “Open to Help.”
One of my favorite analogies is that of Noah. Whom are the Noahs of today working on building coffers to save us all from future debacles? Marc Zuckerberg and his publicity machine or Bill Gates vaccinating the world? Those who focus their purpose on helping others or those who “have to eat”?
The sustainability of our lives will be very personal today, and it is the whole notion of “work” that will change.
Job offers are dropping because of service and consumer economy fragility.
As opportunities are less, what always happens in critical periods of evolution occurs. The most robust and most capable survive. You may think that I will summarize Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The temptation exists to start talking about the survival of the strongest. Except that what is happening is the opposite of the moments of capitalism when I was a “Millennial.”
I began my career in 1996 when in an economy in full acceleration and globalization, the fastest and most aggressive won. I lived that incredible adrenaline rush of competing and winning. Every new position was new income and new opportunities to move up the “food” ladder in a world of individuals and “talented” in every promotion in the organization. I was one of the best dinosaurs. It was essential to win and catch the opportunities at all costs. I was the fastest, most aggressive, and loneliest survivor of success.
Twenty-five years have passed, and I can see that I am surviving today because I belong to a community of people I trust and trust me. I live in my own experience of what a collaborative world means. We would talk about a new ecosystem.
The one who shares the most survives; trust is the new Competitiveness. It pays to share.
In my day, I receive dozens of messages from people asking for help to achieve their projects, dreams, and goals. My answer, “Tell your story, share and contribute before you want to be supported.” For me, it’s personal.
Jean Clauteaux
