Daily Endeavor Blog

Last week there were a few particularly intense and nourishing days moving between events — Mark Hurst’s Good Experience Live (GEL) Thur/Fri, then LaidOffCamp NY’s Friday night panel and full event on Saturday where I had a great time MC’g both, followed by an Endeavor Prep Bootcamp we ran on Sunday. It was 4 days of people investing in what’s next.

At GEL, Scott Heiferman kicked off with an upbeat talk about how he sees people increasingly turning their backs on desperate marketing, and instead turning toward each other, much like we did before industrialization creeped in to most corners of life last century. Scott captured the idea in a poignant phrase:

Instead of DIY, it’s increasingly DIO

Instead of do-it-yourself, it’s increasingly do-it-ourselves. His idea is right on. In my experience when people want to do anything that’s hard or truly new, it never happens alone. Instead of the lore of the lone genius in the tower, there’s always a circle, a team, a network, a community of supporters and promoters that are co-creating along the way.

This idea became the theme for me throughout the weekend, underscored especially by the hundreds who showed up for LaidOffCamp. Attendees with expertise to share led 30 sessions throughout Saturday. It was DIO in action. Not only did a small group of us self-organize to produce the event, a much larger group came to breathe life into it. I’m glad Chris Hutchins was able to make it too, to see what he’s spawned.

For a piece of the events, here’s Chris Russell’s (JobRadio.FM, Secrets of the Job Hunt) podcast of a session I moderated with Deb Berman, Dr Doug Hirshorn, and Matt Wallaert:

Few careers are on display as much as an actor’s when they gain traction. As the audience, we don’t have visibility into the Gladwellian hours that are poured into each role, but we do see the outcome of their work, and how their work changes over time, much moreso than most others.

Kate Winslet has been getting traction for a while now. Peer recognition, in the form of nominations and actual awards, has been active for her at the highest levels for over ten years.

Sometimes you can spot when people truly are doing something they love — they enjoy their craft visibly, they excel in ways that no one else seems to be doing, they attract people who want to work with them. And sometimes, in addition to these, they just plain come out and say it, like Kate Winslet did at the Oscars this week:

And I am so lucky to have a wonderful husband and two beautiful children who let me do what I love and who love me just the way that I am.

Place Kate Winslet in the group of people who discovered her way into doing what she loves, and has had the support required to get there.