Reinvent Yourself.

Knowledge people must take responsibility for their own development and placement.

In today's society and organizations, people work increasingly with knowledge, rather than with skill. Knowledge and skill differ in a fundamental characteristic - skills change very, very slowly. Knowledge, however, changes itself. It makes itself obsolete, and very rapidly. A knowledge worker becomes obsolescent if he or she does not go back to school every three or four years.

This not only means that the equipment of learning, of knowledge, of skill, of experience that one acquires early is not sufficient for our present life time and working time. People change over such a long time span. They become different persons with different needs, different abilities, different perspectives, and, therefore, with a need to "revitalize." If you talk of fifty years of working life - and this, I think, is going to be increasingly the norm - you have to reinvent yourself. You have to make something different out yourself, rather than just find a new supply of energy.

ACTION POINT: Ask those ahead of you in age how they went about "repotting themselves." What steps should you take now?

"A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark"."

John Paul Warren

I have learned that the harder you fall...the higher you bounce!

John Paul Warren

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.

John Paul Warren

"You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can't stop a good man"."

John Paul Warren

Birds do not attend flight schools; Rivers do not attend flowing colleges; Fishes do not attend swimming conferences; Trees do not attend fruit bearing seminars... There is something that you can do automatically that someone may not do... Find it and do it! There is something someone may do automatically that you may not do; leave it for him to it!

Israelmore Ayivor

There are lots of trips out there. It's even possible to become a conference groupie, going from one seminar to another and being a Beautiful Evolved Human Being until you start making the people around you want to throw up.

Michael Crichton, Travels

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

M.F. Moonzajer

Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation...