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AUSTIN VICKERS: Well thinking alone won’t change their reality. You can’t just sit
on the couch at home and wish for a better job and hope that all of a sudden it will
magically going to appear. I don’t think it works that way, but imagination can change
their reality, looking at the problem of, ‘how do I get to work, how do I create a
job while it appears that none is existing’, is the beginning of thinking that will in
fact change their reality.
But it requires us to challenge our assumptions; maybe we have to work for less money. One
of the pieces of advice I give to a lot of people around me when they ask me about finding
work is, I say to them go to the company for example that you would most want to work for
and offer your services for free.
What if you showed up on their doorstep and simply said to them, “I believe in myself
and you are going to believe in me in 30 days but for the next 30 days I am going to come
and work for you for free, and if at the end of that 30 days you think I have made a contribution…then
hire me, and if you feel like I am not valuable to your company then you can let me go and
you don’t owe me a thing”.
If people do this and they believe in themselves and then take that action, how often is it
that an employer is going to simply let them work for 30 days and then let them go? Trust
me, it doesn’t happen that often that people approach us willing to give that kind of a
contribution for free with such a strong belief in themselves.
So we have to challenge the way we are thinking
about these problems, even when it comes to things like unemployment or being out of work,
and then we have to employ new strategies that will help us employ our imagination and
create results, not only for ourselves but also for the people that we are trying to
get work from, or our jobs.
And when we begin to think in new ways and challenge our own assumptions about the problems
that appear to be happening to us then we can make our way out of our prisons and begin
to change the reality that in the moment may not appear to be very good for us.