Mindshift es un curso diseñado para ayudarte a impulsar tu carrera profesional y tu vida personal en el mundo de cambios acelerados que vivimos hoy en día. Cualquiera que sea tu edad o etapa de formación, Mindshift te enseñará técnicas para aprovechar al máximo tu experiencia de aprendizaje en línea, estrategias para conseguir y trabajar con mentores, secretos para evitar estancamientos (y catástrofes) en tu carrera profesional, y reflexiones sobre el valor de la ignorancia selectiva y la competencia general. Te proporcionaremos prácticas enseñanzas basadas en la ciencia sobre cómo aprender y transformar tu mente de manera efectiva, incluso durante la madurez, utilizando como base lo que ya conoces para guiar tu evolución en fantásticas nuevas direcciones. Este curso está diseñado para enseñarte cómo reflexionar sobre lo que estás aprendiendo, y sobre tu lugar en los acontecimientos que se desarrollan en la sociedad a tu alrededor, para que logres convertirte en lo que quieras ser y cumplas tus metas, teniendo presente las limitaciones que el mundo real pone sobre todos nosotros. ¡Verás que al usar estas técnicas y estrategias mentales, podrás aprender y hacer más -mucho más- de lo que podrías haber soñado!
Este curso puede ser tomado de manera independiente, en conjunto o subsecuente a su curso asociado, Aprendiendo a Aprender. (Mindshift está más orientado a carreras profesionales, y Aprendiendo a Aprender está más orientado al aprendizaje).
从本节课中
Aprendizaje y Carreras Profesionales
Esta semana hablaremos sobre como desarrollar tu propia carrera y cambiar a lo largo de tu vida. Tus sentimientos internos sobre lo que quieres hacer pueden jugar un papel fundamental en tu felicidad a largo plazo. Pero la sociedad y la cultura también pueden tener un efecto dramático en las elecciones y decisiones de tu carrera, como lo es el caso de tus padres, familiares y amigos. Hablaremos de segundas habilidades y de desarrollar una pila de talentos que se pueden combinar para crear un activo formidable. También hablaremos sobre varias tácticas y técnicas para ayudarte a sobrevivir a los cambios de carrera y las convulsiones. ¡Bienvenido y disfruta!
Ramón y Cajal Distinguished Scholar of Global Digital Learning, McMaster University Professor of Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Oakland University
Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
M.S. Orlando Trejo
Assistant Professor Department of Electronics and Circuits, Universidad Simón Bolívar
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Most people think about their career development as taking the form of
a sort of a T.
So you have your arms out, and the T going down.
In other words, you have one heavy-duty skill, that's the downward part of the T,
and you complement it by taking some superficial knowledge of other things.
That's the initial approach I took to my career.
I learned Russian, and also learned a smattering of other skills,
like how to type, how to drive [SOUND] a truck.
The challenge of course, is that I found myself without too many opportunities.
But there's another way to think about careers.
That's the pi approach,
which is promoted by Patrick Tay, an elected member of Singapore's Parliament.
Notice that this career approach has sort of two legs,
gives you more balance, right?
And you have one main skill, say accounting, but you also
want to supplement that with knowledge in another area, say counselling.
The second area may be directly related or it may be quite different from the first.
If time and money are tight,
you should try to build your second skill out of what you're already familiar with.
When I went to look at second skilling myself,
I took a clue from what I'd witnessed in the military.
Having at least some technical competence in your skills toolkit
often means you have more opportunities.
So that was a big push for
me towards getting a second set of skills in engineering.
Even though I didn't think I had any passion or talent for engineering.
To my surprise, when I began getting better at my engineering studies,
I began to realize I liked engineering and I found something more.
My previous background as a linguist actually
enhanced my studies of engineering and my ability as engineer.
I'd learned about chunking and interleaving and deliberate practice.
In other words, I'd learned how to learn.
I thought more creatively about my engineering studies
because of my passion for language.
There are many examples of people becoming successful at their passion
only because they stopped focusing directly and solely on that passion,
and instead began incorporating real world considerations.
For example, writer Scott Turow initially had trouble making it as an author.
So he took a step sideways instead to attend law school.
The real world expertise he acquired as
a lawyer gave his fiction extraordinary power.
His books have since sold more than 30 million copies around the world.
As you know, my hero in science is the father of modern neuroscience,
Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
Cajal's father was a doctor who pushed his son hard towards becoming a doctor,
but Cajal himself wanted to be an artist.
Here it was, Spain in the 1860s, and
the arguments between a parent and child were the same as they are today.
Cajal's father pointed out that it was almost impossible to make a living
as an artist but Cajal resisted strongly.
Until, that is, Cajal finally realized that the real world is important.
In fact, he was going nowhere fast.
Finally, he began turning his attention towards working to become a doctor.
It was very difficult for him.
He flunked some major examinations, but he kept trying.
However, he never forgot his passion for art.
In fact, he brought that artistic passion into his study of medicine
which ultimately played an important role in helping Cajal win the Nobel Prize.
So remember, you can bring a second skill into your work because of your passion,
or simply because it enhances or complements your first skill.
You may have to spend some parts of your life focusing on one thing in order to get
deep skilling in that area, but you don't have to give up on your passion.
In fact, your passion can greatly enhance your creative ability in your other skill.
In the end, it's never a good idea to just blindly follow your passion.
In fact, look at the real world and work to both follow and broaden your passions.