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15 Things Students Need to Know

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The Skills Gap

"The gap is growing between those who know the new career rules and have the new skills of a global economy, and those who clutch to old ways of thinking and rely on commoditized skills. The question is: which are you? Do you know how to develop a competitive advantage to win the best jobs and opportunities? Can you adapt your career plans as you change or as the people around you change? What are you doing to maintain a diverse mix of professional relationships?"

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U.S. Personal/Household Income

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Average Is Over

“As Thomas Friedman wrote in a January 25, 2012 New York Times editorial: "Being average just won't earn you what it used to. Everyone needs to find their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment. Average is over."

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Develop Your Abilities

Geoff Colvin echoed such sentiment in Talent is Overrated "Individuals are under unprecedented pressure to develop their own abilities more highly than ever before, apart from anything their employers may or may not do to develop them."

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The Need to Think Differently

• Obsoledge • “To deal with

today, therefore, we need not only new knowledge but new ways to think about it."

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The Role of Creativity

Lorin Anderson, who was a student of Benjamin Bloom, updated Bloom's Taxonomy in 2000 and placed Creating at the top of the learning objectives hierarchy as the most important skill for students to learn. Creative is defined as "Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing."

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The Role of Story

“To be successful today professionals need to improve their creativity as it relates to design, storytelling, empathy, and meaning. Individuals, families and organizations need to understand that professional success and personal fulfillment now require a whole new mind."

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Knowledge from Different Fields

To help students develop this whole new mind they need to "harvest knowledge from a range of disciplines including science, technology design, social science and the arts. Such an approach, in the words of Innovation Nation author John Kao, "will help individuals, companies and entire nations to continuously create their desired future."

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New Skills Emerging

“According to an American Management Association survey executives say the typical knowledge and skills in the areas of reading, writing, and arithmetic (the three Rs) are no longer sufficient for managers. To ensure success in the workforce of the future, the three Rs need to be fused with four other skills (the four Cs): 1) critical thinking and problem-solving skills, 2) communication skills, 3) collaboration skills, and, 4) creativity and innovation skills.

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The Value of Failing

"The three essential steps that make up the recipe for successfully adapting are a)try new things, in the expectation that some will fail; b)to make failure survivable, because it will be common and c)to make sure that you know when you've failed. To produce new ideas we must overcome our tendency to fall in step with those around us and overcome those with a vested interested in the status quo."

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The Illusion of A Secure Job

In Wes Moss Starting from Scratch "If you are putting up with a boring job in exchange for security, you are not as secure as you think. That security which is the main reason most people go to work for a large organization is largely an illusion based on the way things were done 50 years ago."

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Multiple Revenue Streams

"Instead of watching TV or paying a game work on your idea. Instead of going to bed at ten, go to bed at eleven. We're not talking about all nighters or 16 hour days – we are talking about squeezing out a few extra hours a week. That's enough time to get something going. Besides, the perfect time never arrives. You are always too young or old or busy or broke or something else. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly they will never happen."

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In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg writes that "Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They shape our lives far more than we realize." He goes on to state that Duke University researchers concluded that habits make up approximately 40% of the actions in a given day. In other words only 60% of any given day is filled with decisions.

The Need to Understand Our Habits

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In his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman of "nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it." "Education is an important determinant of income — one of the most important — but it is less important than most people think. When you focus on education you neglect the myriad of other factors that determine income.”

The Focusing Illusion

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The Path to Success