S2E5: How to Change Your Thinking to Expand Your Opportunities With Jeff Hittner

Successful Dropout

Jeff leads Your Project X, a social venture dedicated to helping people (re)discover their purpose to build careers they’ll love. He has more than 19 years experience as an entrepreneur, consultant, professor and change-maker. He is the founder of five social ventures, including IBM’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) consulting practice. In 2011, he developed the curriculum for the first MBA in Sustainability on the East Coast, at Bard College, where he was the Leadership professor. He was also two-time Chairman of the Carnegie New Leaders at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

This week Jeff and I discuss actionable strategies for shifting your perspective and thinking in order to realize opportunities that may be right in front of us. As much as we’d like to think we are open minded to new opportunities and changing the trajectory of our careers, we are almost always searching for new solutions from the same mindset that gets us stuck in the first place. How do you change this? Jeff and I outline and discuss six new methods that you can put into practice today:

1. Get advice from someone that has nothing in common with you
2. Change your setting
3. Alter your mind (not in that way though!)
4. Get rid of your phone
5. Draw your future fulfilled
6. Come up with the worst ideas possible

RESOURCES/THINGS MENTIONED

• Your Project X
• Email Jeff

THANK YOU!

Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page.

Additionally, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and I read each and every one of them.

JOIN THE SUCCESSFUL DROPOUT COMMUNITY!

• Create a free account in the forum and introduce yourself!
• Subscribe to the Successful Dropout Podcast.
• Join our private Facebook Group!
• Follow @successfuldropout on Instagram!
• Support Successful Dropout on Patreon