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Tips and Tools to get that Great Gig or Grad School Thanks for your interest, and to learn more: https://linktr.ee/drchrisstout Scott Adams’ Point This advice to become successful is not revolutionary. Except that there is value in Adams’ advice on how to be a successful generalist. He suggests that by combining 2 or 3 separate skills into one profession, you can become successful. It’s often a more realistic path than becoming the best at one thing. Psychology Psychology as a learned profession has always offered a wonderfully vast collection of career options—initially based in science, and then branching out to more applied and clinical applications. Psychology has continued to serve as a platform in these contemporary times to be foundational for continuing evolution, adaptation and augmentation in service of more areas and individuals. I’m going to explore some of these areas from my experiences in various work settings over the course of a 35-year time span, or my “Portfolio Career.” I hope that it will offer not only some modicum of inspiration, but also actionable tools, approaches, and resources that may be of assistance. Dear Graduates, Now Is the Time to Mess Up Time has passed since I was an undergrade there, but having the benefit of 20/20 hindsight and the School of Sceince’s Time Machine, I’m hoping that I have been able to pull off a Marty McFly as to some advice to my then fledgling-and-fearful-first-year-grad-student-self and some of you that may be in the same situation. Be disciplined (but not too much) I had the discipline down, but I now see that my anxiety-induced OCD could have been dialed back a bit and I think I still would have done fine (and gotten a bit more sleep and fewer ulcers). If you are shy, too bad, get out there anyway I was shy at 22. I am shy now. I was very much a wallflower then. A bit less now. But even though I may feel Old Mr. Anxiety making my intestines queasy at most every conference I attend or meetand-greet I go to where I know no one, I go anyway. The story is always the same. I learn new things, meet interesting people, and return home unscathed and happy that I went and made new friends. I really wish I would have told myself that sooner.
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