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book- you majored in what? mapping your path from chaos to career

Chapter-2 connecting the dots summary

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Connecting the Dots: Uncovering the Power of Your Wanderings

This is what I call the soul searching piece of the book. Brooks challenges readers to create a web of significant things that you have done and things that are of interest to you. When you have completed this task, she has you put them into categories and identify the themes. This is a wandering map. I found this exercise useful, even though it is very simple. How many people actually take the time to complete this exercise? The idea is to find the career that you didn’t know you took an interest in, but was right under your nose!

Most of us spend our time spread across a lot of activities, many of which seemingly have little connection to each other. We don’t spend all of our time focused on one single area. We’re engaged in our professional area or our studies, but we’re also involved in community projects, various social groups, hobbies, and countless other things. Quite often, though, these things that we spend our time on have some deep underlying patterns that actually do connect them together. The career we should end up with should be one that taps deeply into those underlying patterns.

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