What’s your best career advice for somebody who’s just graduating from college? - Guy Kawasaki

Q. What’s your best career advice for somebody who’s just graduating from college?

A. Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

Looking back, that’s absolutely incorrect. By definition you cannot make a mistake in your first job other than becoming a consultant or an investment banker.

Let’s say you land in a start-up, and it becomes the next Google. Now you’re 25 years old, and you’re worth $50 million. Anybody would call that a success.

But let’s say you join a start-up, and it implodes. You would learn more about leadership inside a company that crashes than you would inside the next Google.

Specifically, you will learn what not to do. You can’t make a mistake as a college graduate.

Great advise. What do you guys think?

1040 and @TheNehemiahBand at Newsong Tomorrow

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For the past year, Jaeson Ma has been working tirelessly on a
documentary that addresses the radical movement of faith in the 10/40
window - the region of Asia that sits between 10 degrees and 40
degrees north latitude. This entire journey has been difficult, but
fueled by His power, creativity, and gracious provisions. Jaeson has
been privileged to experience and witness the new frontier of
Christianity in Asia and he would like to share it with you…

This movie will inspire and change lives to see what God is doing
today in our world. The film follows the explosive movement of faith
and the power of God sweeping across entire nations throughout Asia. I
have no doubt this film will awaken the youth and ignite the next
generation to go and make disciples of all nations!

At 6:00 PM the 1040 Movie will start and is approximately an hour
long. Then, our friends, The Nehemiah Band and Jaeson Ma will be
having a performance starting at 8:00 PM.

Come and support them!

You can truly love others only after you've learned to love yourself

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Found some awesome quotes about love. Here it goes, from the sermon "Life and Love" by Kris Vallotton.

"Every time someone loves you more than you love you, you will sabotage your relationship with them."

"You sabotage relationships with people you really value ... Everybody whom I wanted to like me, like I had a high value for them, I would be afraid that if they got to know me, they wouldn't like me, so I would build a case against them before they had a chance to build a case against me, so I could reject them before they had a chance to reject me ... The problem is you don't love yourself."

"Do you understand that Jesus said, 'Love your neighbor AS you love yourself'?"

"I can't love you more than I love me. You say, 'Well, yes, I can.' No, you can't. Jesus said, 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' I can't give you what I don't have. If I possess it in this temple, it works on me before it ever works on you."

"People like us that have these struggles, we're really good givers. But what can't we do? Receive. Why? Because receiving means that I will have to let you give to someone who doesn't deserve. And what happens when someone who doesn't deserve it gets stuff? Then they begin to self destruct, because then you just gave a guilty party something they shouldn't have."