Sometimes I feel like a gerbil running without obstruction and without a wheel. My running is not a physical running, but rather a mental running. I constantly feel as though I must learn something new. I must change my skill level. I must retool my tool kit.
Lately, I feel more like Linda Blair in the movie “The Exorcist.” Mentally, my head spins in circles, again the reference to the gerbil and the wheel.
Reading Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” caused me to think through my life path so far. I am hardly insensitive to those grappling with career change, especially those graying job hunters. What follows is my thinking. You can decide how to handle your mental gerbil.
What should we learn? What should we read? Who has the best advice? All those questions and more trying to survive in the job market today.
Maybe that is the problem with my gerbil mentality. Maybe I should improve what I already know to be more current. In other words, I should get the gerbil back on the wheel. All this mental running around could just be, in the end, nonsense.
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