#579 How to build an M-shaped career

Hi everybody, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before today's episode starts, I wanted to let you know about something that Sarah and I have created for the summer. We are gonna be launching a series all about a career well spent. We're gonna release four episodes, one every Tuesday, and it's gonna be us in conversation with an expert who can give us a different perspective on what it means to have a career well spent. We'll talk about longevity, we'll talk about relationships, we'll talk about time, we'll talk about making a difference. We wanted this to be a community learning moment too. So on Thursdays, we're gonna have a LinkedIn live where you can bring your questions, you can bring your reflections, and we'll discuss the episodes together as a community. All the links you need are going to be in the Squiggly Careers newsletter. So if this sounds like something you want to get involved in, and we really, really hope you do, it's all free and it'll be a great learning moment, then all you need to do is sign up for the newsletter. Just go to squiggly newsletter.com, that's squiggly newsletter.com, and we will send you a new.

everything you need to know to get involved. But for now, let's get on with today's episode. You were never meant to master just one thing. You were meant to be the person who can see how everything connects. We've borrowed brilliance from lots of things in the past, but we have never borrowed brilliance from a letter. M shaped people. have multiple elements of mastery and they're able to connect the dots in their career. Why we should care or why this might be interesting. It can make you more resilient. It perhaps feels harder to replace or to replicate. People that might succeed with a different shape can sometimes be quite confronting to other people's. Ideal success. This is about having multiple areas of mastery. If you were picking

One area of mastery today, Helen, where would you start? Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers Podcast. Well every week we borrow some brilliance from a person, a place, something we've read. Or something even more unusual, which is what we've got in store for you today. And we try to turn that brilliance into something useful for you and your career.

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