Reasoning with 5th formers at wolmers school for girls.

Reasoning With Wolmers 5th Formers
Leahcim Semaj, PhD
March 20, 2015
"Where Do I See Myself
in
10 Years Time?"

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How to Live and also
Earn a Living
Leahcim Semaj
Career Planning Matrix
in The New Work Order

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“We have all that
we need to create
what we want
because all the
resources we need
are in our minds”
Theodore Roosevelt

Thoughts on Careers
Your career is like a garden.
It can hold an assortment of life’s
energy that yields a bounty for you.
You do not need to grow just one thing
in your garden.
You do not need to do just one thing in
your career. - Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Thoughts on Careers
 “Learn to fish (income),
 share your fish (community service),
 teach others to fish (multiply yourself).
 Then find another sidestream, with
different fish (diversify income).
 And before THAT sidestream dries up,
 plant a garden (manage risk),
 like Thomas Jefferson (genius) would have
done.”
 Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Thoughts on Careers
The worst days of
those who enjoy what
they do, are better than
the best days of those
who don’t. - E. James Rohn

Thoughts on Careers
It’s not what you achieve, it’s
what you overcome.
That’s what defines your
career. - Carlton Fisk
Work to become, not to
acquire. - Elbert Hubbard

Thoughts on Careers
 The best way to predict
the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Our greatest weakness
lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Thoughts on Careers
I think everyone should
experience defeat at least
once during their career.
You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holts
Begin somewhere.
You cannot build a reputation on what
you intend to do. - Liz Smith

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Two Basic Needs
1. WORK
2. INTIMACY
At the Foundation

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Human Development
CHILD
ADOLESCENT
ADULT
Boys and Girls
Males and Females
Men and Women
WORK
INTIMACY
PARENTING
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The Road Ahead
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DENY YOUTH ACCESS TO PRODUCTIVE MEANS
USE
REPRODUCTIVE
MEANS
USE
DESTRUCTIVE
MEANS
PREGNANCY
BABY MOTHER
PARASITES
PREDATORS

A Parent
Until you are
able to
Pay Rent
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You Are Not Ready to Be
A…

Rex Nettleford
 in his inimitable way,
 long ago reminded us that
the foundation of the
Jamaican economy was
created by the bottom third of
the class (room),
 those with less academic
achievements, that left
school and went out and
created businesses.
 They then hired the top third of
the class to run those
businesses.

‘Pathways to Prosperity’
 One of the major reasons for Jamaica
continuing to be poor is because we have
not succeeded in unlocking the
entrepreneurial productive capabilities of
the majority of our people.
 To a large extent our socialization mantra
for the majority of our people has been
and still is –
"Go to school, study hard, pass your
exams then go beg a job".

We are now in The New Work
Order.
 It is no longer muscle of the masses toiling
in the cane field and factories that drive
the economy.
 It is now brain power driving intellectually
based enterprises that powers knowledge
based economies.
 The requirement today is for the top third
of the class to go out and create the jobs
for the rest of the class,
 if Jamaica is to be able to evolve into new economies
that runs the world.

Post Colonial and Post Independence
Jamaica
had a different dynamics than
we do today.
The realities of the global,
regional and especially the
national economy
is that job growth has been
disproportionate to population
growth.

The Prediction Today
 Globally, 2 Billion jobs will be lost
between now and 2030.
 These will be replaced by new jobs
created by and for the new
economy.
 If we are to move this country
forwards we must stimulate
 ‘New Pathway to
Productivity’

The Purpose of This Intervention
Is To Do Just This
 We have identified six (6) pathways
which we believe that if we energize them
and proportionately shift more of our
people's consciousness in these
directions,
 all built around owning the means of
production;
we will create a more secure
future

6 Paths to Prosperity in
Jamaica
The Best &
The Brightest
• The best way to get a job
today
The Tried & The
Proven
• No more retirement
The Fittest &
The Fastest
• Our natural resource
The Dangerous
& Desperate
• Productive or
Destructive
Health &
Wellness
• Leading force
globally
The
Resurrection of
Ganganomics
• Our green gold
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The
Entrepreneur
The Employee
The Dependent
Transformation of the Work World

The Youth Challenge
Global youth unemployment
(ILO)
 2013 – 12.6%
 2018 – 12.8%
 Jamaica – 38.5% (STATIN 2013)
 Spain, Greece & South Africa – 50%
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Gleaner Study on Migration (Jan 12, 2014)
Education levels of those who would
migrate
Less than high school …..28%
High School/HEART…………..
37%
College, University, Graduate
School …………………………….
43%
 If we don’t transform them, we will loose
them 31

They are in the best position
today!
Path 1. The Best And The
Brightest
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What do they bring to the table?
 They are the most tech savvy and
demanding generation ever on this
planet
 Technology is in their DNA.
 The internet is their life.
 They will use it for everything
 They will be a transient workforce.
 They will 'follow the work' and live
where the work is based.
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What do they bring to the table?
 For them the virtual world is real –
 Friends, Fans, Followers and Contacts
 Geography and distance are
 no hindrance,
 Everything is here and now - just a click away.
 They will be ‘knowmads’
 Able to go and work anywhere!!!
 Gil Scott Heron told us that The revolution would
not be televised. We have Facebook, Twitter and
BB!
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What do They bring to the
table?
They are more self-directed
They process information at
lightning speed
They are smarter than any other
generation
(how wise? Time will tell?)
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What do they bring to the
table?
 They will give new meaning to the term
Social workers:
 Raised in an educational culture of
working in teams
 and being highly socially connected
through
 computers, cell phones, text messaging,
instant messaging, social networking,
 blogs, multi-player gaming, etc.,
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IT is now time For Them to
Get Disruptive!
Innovation Starts With
Disruptive Hypotheses
(Luke Williams)
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A disruptive
hypothesis
 is an intentionally
unreasonable statement that
gets your thinking flowing in a
different direction.
 …are designed to upset your
comfortable equilibrium and
bring about an accelerated
change in your own thinking.
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Target Group
for the intervention
4th and 5th Formers
Sixth Formers
Tertiary Students
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The Epistemology of
Overstanding
Believe
Feel
Think
March 21, 2015

Visioning or Wishful Thinking?
The ability to ‘wish’
has equipped us with a most
powerful capability
but this process is best channeled
by what is called
Thoughtful Wishing
With this we can create
visions March 21, 2015

Begin With A Bold Vision
 One Year down the
road
 “Life is one big road with
lots of signs.
 So when you riding
through the ruts, don’t
complicate your mind.
 Flee from hate, mischief
and jealousy.
 Don’t bury your
thoughts, put your
vision to reality.
 Wake Up and Live”!
 - Bob Marley
March 21, 2015

What is Your
Bold Vision?
March 21, 2015

From DREAMS to GOALS
March 21, 2015

Set Your Goals – 100 Days Away,
defined and
measurable.
“If you have a goal, write it
down.
If you do not write it down,
you do not have a goal March 21, 2015

Set Your Goals – 100 Days Away,
“It is for us to pray not for tasks
equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire
forever beating at the door of our
hearts as we travel toward our
distant goal”. -
Helen Keller
March 21, 2015

A time-bound goal
is intended to establish a sense of
urgency.
A time-bound goal will usually
answer the question:
When?
What can I do six months from now?
What can I do six weeks from now?
What can I do today?

NOW: Make Your Plans
One month at a time
in as much details as possible.
 “Our goals can only be reached
through a vehicle of a plan, in which
we must fervently believe,
 and upon which we must vigorously act.
 There is no other route to
success”.
 Pablo Picasso
March 21, 2015

Make The Best Decisions – Each
Day
“What do I do today to improve
my life with respect to my
health, happiness, wisdom,
wealth’
 based on all spiritual, mental and
empirical information.
 “Once you make a decision, the
universe conspires to make it
happen” March 21, 2015

Make the best decisions – each
day
If this is not what you are doing,
then we call it wishful thinking.
“Stop the habit of wishful
thinking and start the habit of
thoughtful wishes”
Mary Martin
March 21, 2015

The Jesus Model
You Must Do
Something

You Must Do Something
The
Paralysed
Man
Pick up
your bed
and go
home
 Luke 5:24

 Changing Water
into Wine
Fill these jars with
water… Now draw
some water out and
take it to the man in
charge of the feast
 John 2: 7-8

 The great catch of
fish
Push the boat
further out into
the deep water,
and you and your
partners let down
your net
 Luke 5:4

 Feeding the 5,000
Make the people
sit down in groups
of about 50 each
 Luke 9:16

 Zacchaeus
“Come down” – Luke 19:5
 Lazarus
“Come forth” - John 11:43
 The boy with the evil spirit
“Bring your son here” - Luke 9:42

 Healing a Man Born Blind
Jesus spat on the
ground and made some
mud with the spittle;
he rubbed the mud on
the man’s eyes and
told him, “Go and wash
your face in the pool at
Siloam”
 John 9:7

If you want to get
something you
have never had
You must be
willing to do
something you
have never done

Step 8: Use The Law of
Attraction
Tristan Loo
March 21, 2015

Create A Vision Board
March 21, 2015

The Science Behind
The Law of Attraction
We attract into
our lives
anything that we
give attention to,
regardless
whether it be
positive or
negative March 21, 2015

From a psychological
view,
the law of attraction can be
best explained by the
information filtering system of
the brain
known as the Reticular
Activating System (RAS)
March 21, 2015

The Reticular Activating
System
March 21, 2015

Maturity Means That
We Know When To Hold
& When To Let Go:
March 21, 2015

WHEN TO HOLD & WHEN TO
LET GO:
 The archer sets up for the kill by
pulling back and holding the bow,
but the accuracy of the shot is
determined by
knowing just when to let go
Both components are critical
March 21, 2015

Knowledge & Wisdom
"Knowledge is learning
something new every day.
Wisdom is letting go of
something every day”
Zen Proverb
March 21, 2015

Maturity Means That
We Know How To Mix
Past, Present & Future:
March 21, 2015

Life Is Best Tackled With A
5:3:2 formation
50% - on shaping the future,
30% - on perfecting the present,
20% - reviewing and learning
from the past
 You cannot safely go forward by spending all
your time viewing life through the rear view
mirror.
March 21, 2015

Daily Practice
Conscious Right Action
You will evolve to
Spontaneous Right
Action
March 21, 2015

Spontaneous Right
Action:
Spontaneous right action is the
right action at the right moment.
It's the right response to every
situation as it happens.
It's the action that nourishes you
and everyone else who is
influenced by that action.
March 21, 2015

Spontaneous Right
Action:
 At the moment you consciously make a
choice, pay attention to your body and ask
your body, “
If I make this choice, what
happens?”
 If your body sends a message of comfort,
that's the right choice.
 If your body sends a message of
discomfort, then it's not the appropriate
choice. March 21, 2015

Career Planning
CAREER
PLANNING
is a lifelong
process
 What was your earliest
aspirations?
 Your first job?
 How you got here?
 Is this really where you
want to be?
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Choosing an OCCUPATION
Getting a JOB
GROWING in your job
Possibly CHANGING CAREERS
Eventually
Rethinking Retirement
CAREER PLANNING

is an oxymoron?
Career Planning

The Reality
Learn
new
skills
every
5 years
Change
career
every
10
years

US Trends (2012)

Shorter job tenure
Associated with a new era of
insecurity, volatility, and risk
It's part of the same employment
picture as the increase in
part-time, freelance, and contract
work;
mass layoffs and buyouts;
"creative destruction" within
industries.

Plan to
to provide own health care
bridge gaps in income with
savings
Manage own retirement
planning
invest in own education to
keep skills marketable and up
to date.

In the future,
"everything that can be
routinized, codified, and
dissected will eventually be
done by machines.
Social and emotional
intelligence is what humans are
uniquely good at
at least for the next decade or
two." 3/21/2015www.LTSemaj.com91

No More
Lifetime Employment
GOOD WORK
+ CROSS TRAINING
+ CONTINUOUS
EDUCATION
 =
Lifetime
Employability

Personal Variables
1. Your Personality

Personality
A person’s individual
Traits
Motivational drives
Needs
Attitudes

Personal Variables
2. Your Interest/Passion
The Law of Dharma
Seek your higher Self.
Discover your unique talents.
Ask yourself how you are best suited to
serve humanity.
Using your unique talents and serving
others brings unlimited bliss and
abundance.
Your job or your hobby?

Values
 The things that are important to
you:
Achievement
Status
Wealth
Autonomy
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Intrinsic values
are related to the work itself and
its contribution to society
 Extrinsic values
include external features such as
physical setting and earning potential
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Values

The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in
Life
There are 3 components of Law
of Dharma:
 1) Each of us is here to discover
our true and higher self.
We must find out for our self that inside
us is a god or goddess in embryo that
wants to be born so that we can express
our divinity.

The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in
Life
 2) Express our Unique Talents.
This expression of talent takes us into
timeless awareness which is certainly will
make you happy and joyful.
 3) Service to Humanity.
Ask yourself “How can I help all those
that I come into contact with?
When you combine the ability to express
your unique talent with service to
humanity, then you make full use of the
Law of Dharma.

To Raise the (spiritually) dead
Heal the (Mentally and Physically) sick
Teach those who did not learn
Remind those who have forgotten.
So that they may become
Wiser, Healthier, Wealthier and Happier
in Body, Mind and Spirit

Develop Job Creation Skills
What is Your (Dharma) Passion?
What Desire can you fulfill
Or Problems you can solve?
Who is willing to Pay?
What can you deliver?
a product - a skill - a service?
Go out and find customers

The Law of Karma:
What do I want to give?
Every action generates a force of
energy that returns to us in like
kind.
Choosing actions that bring
happiness and success to others
ensures the flow of happiness
and success to you.
 The world? my country? my family?

Personal Variables
3. Your Skills
4. Your Education

All You Need is Already
Online
http://www.skilledup.com/
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The Future of
Education
The OpenCourseware Movement
took hold in 2001
MIT started recording all their
courses
making them available for free
online.
They currently have over 2080
courses available
downloaded 131 million times.
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In 2004
 The Khan Academy was
started with a clear and
concise way of teaching
science and math
Today they offer over 2,400
courses that have been
downloaded 116 million times

Apple’s iTunes U
 The 8,000 pound gorilla
in the OpenCourseware
space
 This platform offers over
500,000 courses from
1,000 universities that
 downloaded over 700
million times
 Recently they also started
moving into the K-12
space

FREE
 All of these courses are free for anyone to take
 how do colleges, that charge steep tuitions,
compete with “free”?
 The OpenCourseware Movement has shown,
 courses are becoming a commodity
 Teachers only need to teach once,
 record it,
 then move on to another topic or something
else
GO TO EPIC 2020

In the middle of all this
 we are transitioning from a
teaching model to a learning
model.
Why do we need to wait for a
teacher to take the stage in the
front of the room
when we can learn whatever is of
interest to us at any moment?

Teaching requires experts
Learning only requires
coaches
With all of the assets in
place,
we are moving quickly into the
new frontier of a teacherless
education system

Caribbean Virtual
Academy
 The CaribbeanExams
portal is home to the
region's premier
examination
preparation platform
for primary, high
school, college and
university students
 Caribbean Virtual
Academy (CEVA)
 a private online
primary and high
school.
http://www.caribbeanexams.com/

The Caribbean Virtual Academy
(CEVA)
 Our courses facilitate learning at home, on the road, or wherever an
Internet connection can be found.
 All CEVA students have access to a wide array of etextbooks,
ehandouts, videos, educational games, thousands of practice
questions, topic specific tests, study guides, topic specific notes,
animated notes, pre-tests and post-tests.
 In addition to access to test preparation materials, CEVA students
participate in online class discussions and live tutorials facilitated by
Caribbean tutors.
 In addition to core primary school subjects, CEVA affords students
the opportunity to prepare for all CSEC and CAPE courses/subjects.
 CEVA students are required to register as independent candidates to
sit the requisite regional examinations, students will only be able to
sit subjects not necessitating a practical or SBA as these
components of the syllabus are not accommodated through CEVA at
the moment.

The Skill Set For The
Future
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Social intelligence:
Trust
Collaboration
Teamwork
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Agile thinking:
 Today uncertainty rules the market,
 changes are abrupt
 yesterday’s market conditions are different to
today’s.
 Creative thinking,
 the ability to innovate,
 deal with complexity, ambiguity, and
paradoxes
 prepare for more than one scenario
 critical for future success.
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Human-machine
Collaboration
And Co-dependence:
 Digital and technology skills are not
only nice to have, they are a
necessity.
 workplace automation and human-
machine dependence
 a workplace where human-machine
collaboration and co-dependence is
the norm.
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Cross-cultural skills:
 Cross-cultural understanding and communication
 global operating skills such as
 the ability to manage diverse employees
 understanding international markets
 ability to work in multiple overseas
locations
 foreign language skills
 cultural sensitivity
 will be increasingly in demand over the next 5 to
10 years.
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The innovative, entrepreneurial
mindset:
 The ability to innovate
“self-starter”
“risk-taker”
“visionary”
someone who “spots
opportunity”
 You don't need to own a business to be an
entrepreneur,
 but you do need the entrepreneurial
mindset to be successful in business.” 120

Leadership skills:
 Businesses today operate in two time
frames,
the immediate and the very long term,
the ability to manage contradictions will
be critical.
 This requires finding new ways of
working together.
 Major barrier to engagement is trust
must be central to the thinking of future 121

Personal Variables
5. Where do you want to
live?
6. How do you want to live?

Job Specific Variables
The Present Viability of
Post
7. Where you live
8. Where you want to live

Job Specific Variables
The Future Viability of
Post
9. Where you live

Aldous Huxley
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“Experience is not what
happens to you;
it's what you do with what
happens to you.”

Anon
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"Past is experience.
Present is experiment.
Future is expectation!
Use your experience in your
experiments to get your
expectations."

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“There are many ways of
going forward,
but only one way of standing
still.”

Time To Wake up &
Live
March 21, 2015

LIFE

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