Career Success and the Proximity Principle
How can you take control of your career? Ken Coleman, host of The Ken Coleman Show and author of The Proximity Principle, offers a guide for discovering and seizing the right opportunities.
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I was stuck in a job that I couldn’t stand.
I wanted out in the worst way.
Not because I wasn’t making enough money. I was.
Not because I hated my boss. I didn’t.
But because I wasn’t doing what I was meant to do. And I could no longer convince myself otherwise.
Every day, every week, I experienced the slow death of boredom, counting down the clock to Friday, dreading Monday.
It was no way to live.
My story is hardly unique. It may even describe you.
And if you haven’t yet started your work life, it might describe what you fear most.
But I have some good news, a way for you to take control of your future.
I know this idea works because I used it for my own career and have helped countless people use it for theirs.
The idea is called the Proximity Principle.
It’s deceptively simple:
In order to do what you want to do you have to be around the people who are doing it and in the places where it is happening.
That’s the Proximity Principle.
So, how can you put the Proximity Principle into practice?
The first step is to seek out five types of people. Each one has an important role to play in helping you move forward toward your goal — your dream job.
One, “the professors.”
I don’t mean actual professors, but people who know their stuff. They are scholars of your desired field; they love to teach, and they are willing to teach you.
Two, “the professionals.” These are the people who have made it. There’s a reason for that. Read their biographies and anything they’ve written. Watch them on YouTube. Emulate them. They’re your model — what you aspire to.
Three, “the mentors.” — individuals who care about you and want to coach you. Mentors are not the same as professors. These are people who will take you under their wing; who will tell you hard truths you need to hear. They will offer guidance and accountability. Whether they say you’re doing great or failing badly, you know they mean it.
Four, your peers. They, like you, are trying to make it. They, like you, are placing themselves in the right places, around the right people. Peers will challenge you to realize your potential. They will push you, and you them. This is healthy competition and it’s good.
Five, “the producers.” They are similar to the professionals, but the producers are builders first. They take risks, start companies, create jobs. More than anything, they produce opportunities. One of them may be for you.
Okay, that’s a lot. You’re not going to gather this team overnight. It will take weeks or months or even years. And this is just the first part of the Proximity Principle. I said it was simple — I didn’t say it was easy.
So, let’s move to the second part of the Proximity Principle: where you need to be.
One, start where you are. You don’t have to drop everything and move to the big city right away or maybe ever. Everything you need to begin is more than likely in your current zip code. You just have to look for it. Seek every opportunity to track down the people you need to meet. They may be people you already know or people the people you know know. You get the point.
Two, you need a place to learn. Take the classes, get the certifications, apply for the apprenticeships or internships that will get you closer to the job you want.
Three, you need a place to practice, a place to convert your education into execution, a place to test yourself before you “step out on stage.” This is where you’ll hone your craft. There’s very little risk involved at this point, but there’s also no substitute, no shortcut, for spending the hours necessary to develop your skills.
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This advice doesn't apply to any field that doesn't provide revenue.
Many of us have to do very unpleasant work to get paid.. especially as opportunity shrinks due to the malfeasance of our gov.
Nice method, but it does not suit everybody. The introverts in particular.
Its crazy how all these influencers quit the jobs they tell you to stay at and become rich by telling you to follow your passion! I guess everybody can achieve happiness and success by being an author or public speaker! "Now I help other people follow their dreams," wow, crazy how not working for a living pays off so well! So basically you escaped the system but of course in order to be successful, you still rely on the peons at the bottom to do the jobs you don't want to. The world runs on slavery, and the masters dangle the carrot of financial freedom
This doesnt work post covid
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This guy sounds robotic.
165 comments, 1.6k likes, 3 millions subs….. ok.
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I'm starting to get disappointed with these videos.
this can happen in america
https://youtu.be/4iYs8djuM3o
From the thumbnail I thought he was Jake Tapper and I said "WHAT DA!!!!!"
This is are the same things my father told me ^^
And i mean point for point 😉
This mindset equals success : https://youtu.be/FKAIZgLfF_c
Advice is not practical but theoretical.
Who were the 31 men in the U-Haul??????
I’m convinced that leftist socialist ideologies wouldn’t have anywhere near the appeal it has if as a country we learned to manage our finances better. It’s easy to pitch communism to people when they’re poor and refuse to accept that their own financial mismanagement is the reason they are stuck in the position they are. The Ramsey team is a powerful asset in fighting back against leftist and I’m so excited to see them making content with organizations like PragerU and The Daily Wire.
This process was neither simple nor easy. Wtf
This video made tons of sense and what was presented should be applied to get real life results. Yet another valuable PragerU video!
This formulaic approach fits well for extraverted people as it stresses the importance of being socially engaging. However, if you are introverted, or just hate dealing with people in general, you will find this process particularly frustrating and discouraging.
The proximity principle looks sensible but it assumes people know what their ideal job would be. A person probably needs to try out many different things to discover what fits.
I liked Mike Rowe’s PragerU advice better. It’s more realistic.
Machiavelli's The Prince laid out the most common sense path to success ever written. It's 78 pages of the way it should be and the way it really is and it's up to you which path you dare take. I honestly don't know a single person of great merit who has not read it.
This video is a call back to all those hucksters in the 1980s who promised to teach you all the great paths to success as soon as you bought a ton of cassettes from them to keep them rich. His mannerisms that of a southern baptist preacher and 80s hucksters, just too much.
Thanks for video , very helpful. 🇺🇸🦅🗽
💡 Ah, associate yourself with the best of people and have them rub off on you.
🏛 Kind of like Aristotelian Virtue Theory put into practice.
I want to write and get into animation
Selfishness is the core of the American dream. This video proves it.
after grad school it took me 2 years to find a really good job that i really wanted. but i did it. things will get better now that the baby boomers are retiring
I have done all this: schooling, steps, gleaning skills, getting experience, connecting to people in fields interested in, long study hours, applying on line, but nothing ever got me the tv anchor job, or the superintendent or the judge. Tried from age 18 till recently. Praying for God’s will, timing and connections. I’d really like to work in the legal field as a judge.
Success is also God's Divine Providence.
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