PREPARING FOR FUTURE OF WORK: Dreamers and Unicorns podcast Summary- Abhijit Bhaduri and Ravi Venkatesan

I recently got a chance to go through Abhijit Bhaduri's Dreamers and Unicorns podcast with Ravi Venkatesan (former Microsoft India CEO). During my executive management graduation time, i had a great opportunity to be face-to-face with Ravi as he taught us a subject based on his book- 'Conquering the Chaos' (about the playbook of doing business in India).

I have been positively influenced with Ravi especially the clarity of thoughts he brings in on myriad of subjects. In the podcast with Abhijit, he shared his views on the theme- 'Workspaces of the future'.

I learned a tons of stuff from this podcast and organized my learnings in these 3 buckets:

1. Preparing for future of work

2. Advice to professionals

3. Leadership lessons

This blog is about sharing the summary of first category- Preparing for future of work.

Section Summary from the podcast:

EVOLUTION OF JOBS:

• In early days, we had jobs, then entrepreneurship and now gigs.
• We are moving from a world of linear change to an exponential change.
• Analogy:
• In my father's generation, you entered a tunnel and emerged 35 years later in to retirement.
• In my generation, you have to probably navigate around 3 tunnels.
• In today's times, you have to navigate a maze. The game has changed profoundly.

HOW TO THINK ABOUT CAREERS

• There is no such thing as a long term job and a predictable career.
• Life is essentially a set of projects, gigs.
• When one gig ends, don't feel bad about it, think about what's next.
• Focus on your skills and the reputation capital, things will be fine.

MINDSET NEEDED- FUTURE OF WORK

• Think like a freelancer, think like an entrepreneur, think about self employment.
• If you are intentional about your ideas and think of experimenting, you will eventually find out what your path is.
• The beginning can be quite unsettling.

BEGINNER'S MINDSET:

• Love the idea of Zen mind or a beginners mind. Always nurture your childlike mind.
• At any given time, take one area where you are a complete beginner. That keeps your mind active and alive.Repeatedly put yourself out of comfort zone by taking on fresh challenges.

ABOUT DREAMS:

• Dreams better change with time.
• Everything that I have done is in preparation of what I am to do next.
• Figuring the highest value use of me.
• Too many people park their dream, they don't pursue it.
• Life is uncertain, you shouldn't postpone your dream.

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