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Get career advice from a real "wise guy." In this course, based on his book Wise Guy, one of the world's leading corporate evangelists, Guy Kawasaki, talks about how he built his career. Learn how he landed his first real job in the jewelry business—which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. Find out why some of the riskiest moves he made at Apple—disparaging a potential partner and trading jabs with Steve Jobs—paid off. Guy also reveals how taking up surfing at the age of 62 sparked a new passion. In total, Guy covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes, “I hope my stories help you live a more joyous, productive, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this, then that’s the best story of all.”
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genconnectU is a digital media company that connects audiences with top experts and on-demand learning content.
genconnectU is on a mission to empower audiences both personally and professionally by providing inspiring online courses on everything from entrepreneurship to meditation. The company boasts an impressive network of over 3,000 world-class experts that deliver wisdom on topics that matter most to audiences, including career, health, lifestyle, relationships, and giving back. The genconnectU team connects learners with these experts and each other—both in groups and one-on-one—to help people enhance their lives.
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Mahalo (gratitude): The importance of knowing your roots
- I come from a lower middle class part of Honolulu and I don't want to paint the picture of total poverty, you know, just overcoming horrendous conditions 'cause that's not true. I had a very happy lower middle class upbringing. I'm third generation Japanese-American. My family came over from Japan because of the lack of economic opportunity. And you could also make the case that my family came over because at that time males in Japan were conscripted. So you were drafted to go fight in China. So you could make the case that I come from a family of draft dodgers. And the lesson that I learned here is that, you know, my family made a very big decision. They didn't just change job or change streets or change prefectures, they changed countries. And the wisdom I got from that is you know, change in losing game. If you're in a game that you cannot win, the odds are stacked against you, then change it. And in their case they left Japan and moved to Hawaii. Now it's not like they moved to Hawaii to become investment bankers. They moved to Hawaii to pick sugarcane. So pick sugarcane, first generation, second generation, real estate broker, state senator. My father, third generation, goes to Stanford, Silicon Valley, tech, the whole thing. So I'm the third generation, but the first generation, the generation that moved to Hawaii is what changed the game.
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