“Your Career is an Extreme Sport”
Your Career Is An Extreme Sport: Focus. Drive. Excel. by Eileen P. Gunn says in order to succeed in your career you need a new attitude–and new equipment.
Forget the old rules of career advancement. The company man has left the building-and he took his gold watch with him. Today’s employees are free agents on the fast track.Your Career Is an Extreme Sport shows how to apply the principles of extreme sports-such as drive, stamina, flexibility, and guts-to achieve extreme career success. Filled with advice from careerists who have reached professional nirvana, this contrarian guide shows readers how to get beyond the ho-hum career comfort zone to reach their professional peak.
Essential career gear for employees looking to make the leap, Your Career is An Extreme Sport is an adrenaline-charged antidote to methodical, touchy-feely career books. After all, today’s workplace demands a bungee cord…not a parachute. […]
Some quotes of Taking the job to extremes, by Patricia Kitchen :
Extreme sports are about looking fear in the face. […] Extreme sports athletes aren’t “daredevils with a death wish” but people who “made concerted efforts to minimize the dangers.”.
And, therein, she says, lies a key skill applicable to the work world: analytical prowess. There’s also focus, psychological stamina, risk tolerance, self-reliance and individuality.
Extreme sports provided coping skills that help them face the unexpected - “a perception of control in a hostile world.”
There’s an element of danger in such sports. Indeed, “there’s a danger factor in anything in life,” says Joseph Coleman, 21, a senior at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus. He heads the extreme sports club, where activities include snowboarding, skiing, white-water rafting, kayaking and rock climbing.
And the presence of danger is exactly the point, he says: To minimize it, people must first learn the basics - the first of which is “how to fail to hurt yourself.” Coleman, a math-education major, says the qualities such athletes develop - confidence, drive, enjoyment of accomplishment - can be transferred not just to a career but to any area of life.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:59 am
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