I know that I mentioned this on my podcast that you have all listened to, but this is one of my favorite reactions to the TEDx talk on the difference between “consciousness” and “autonomous awareness.” The talk was so well done that I had to share it with other podcasters.
If you’ve heard a TEDx talk, you’ve probably heard a lot of people say that they don’t really understand what the speaker means when they talk about consciousness and autonomous awareness. Well, I don’t just mean that their mind is going somewhere else. I’m talking about their awareness of themselves.
That’s why I think that talk is so amazing. It is so clear that the speaker is not talking about the individual, but talking about the collective that is the human race. Consciousness is not just one person, it is a group of people. It is the power that makes us aware of what we are doing, the ability to make choices, and the ability to live life without any external interference. It truly is the power of the human body.
In one of the most interesting recent conversations I’ve had with a kenneth cole enthusiast, he was saying that he had started to notice that he had a really strong tendency to be distracted by certain things. For example, if he was asked to play a game he was interested in, he would often spend the next five minutes looking at a piece of paper. This was distracting and he was not aware of it.
This is an extreme case, but an extreme example is a friend of mine who had just gotten back from travelling. He was always travelling, always on the move; he always seemed to be looking to see what was next. One day he said, “What if I just go outside and do something, and don’t think about it, and just do nothing?” I asked whether he had had a similar experience and he said that he had.
We are all prone to these sorts of problems, but it’s important to realize we make choices and we can change them at any moment. For example, one of my best friends had just switched jobs, and since it was his first job, he wasn’t sure what to do. He decided to make the best of the situation by going back to school.
I’m thinking of what I might do if I get laid off, or have to go back to school, or what if I got a huge promotion and I start doing what everyone else is and it doesn’t matter I was thinking of this article so this is the link, but I’m not sure if its a good idea.
You can do whatever you want to your career or life, but you can also change your circumstances at any time. It’s what you make of the choices you make. So if you’re not 100 percent committed to your career and a new job makes that difficult, you have the option of changing your situation.
You can change your situation at any time. You can choose to change your own career, or if you’re really really good at something and you’ve been trying for ages you can change your job. It all depends on you. It’s a choice, to do or to stay.
To be successful in your career, you are going to have to be great at some things. But you can also be really good at other things. In many cases, its a matter of finding the right things to be good at. In my own career, I have had the option of changing my job every few years.
