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Why the Startup of You?

What's required now is an entrepreneurial mindset paired with the concrete skills of startup entrepreneurs.

Whether you work for a ten-person company, a giant multinational corporation, a nonprofit, or a government agency; whether you run your own business or work for several different outfits as a consultant or freelancer—if you want to seize the new opportunities and meet the challenges of today's fractured career landscape, you need to think and act like you're running a startup: your career.

The Startup of You (Revised and Updated)
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We are all antennae for creative thought. Some transmissions come on strong, others are more faint. If your antenna isn't sensitively tuned, you're likely to lose the data in the noise.

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Most of the time, we are gathering data from the world through the five senses. With the information that's being transmitted on higher frequencies, we are channeling energetic material that can't be physically grasped.

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How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum.

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