Episode 60 - Huge Growth Happens Outside Your Career Job - Interview w/ Ripple Intent

You even wonder why people outside of your job are always talking about leadership? And the skills they don't teach you in school? And how understanding each other and having "empathy" will increase your success and happiness at home and at work? Or "insert here" any other handful of skills discussed by others on LinkedIn.

Well, because it's true. And it's talked about & PRACTICED everywhere outside of your day to day at work because you have a job to do, and to make the company money. It takes 95% of your effort.

Like most things in life, you supplement your knowledge and gain skills outside of the "main" thing you are doing at the time, and bring that learned knowledge and those skills to the thing in order to really excel at it.

Attending college for example. Goal = pass all tests and get good grades

well, to do that = homework, scouring the internet, asking ChatGTP, asking friends, study groups, re-reading the textbooks, doing calcs, etc. (not just going to class)

 Same thing in your engineering career. It's not just showing up and DOING a job.

It's spending the time outside of work developing your ability to work with other humans and understand the dynamics of working within teams.

Enter, Ripple Intent

This volunteer run organization is a hub for learning from real people, with real human problems to solve, in a setting outside of you day job, from people that understand your day job. The huge benefit is talking with them about all the stuff you don't normally get to talk about (or feel you can) so freely at work.

rippleintent.org

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