Look! How happy people are when they serve!Service creates both joy -and opportunity!Credit: Kifo @ Flickr
Institutional education teaches us that we can grow up to trade our talent for goods and status from the world. We “Deserve.”
The products of the institutional world think too much of what they deserve from the world. As if the world will somehow open a warehouse’s door and start handing out goods in return of Certificates of Deserving.
This singular notion is the root of much ill. Look again, the word “deserve” can be re-written as …

Problem:In a world of free ideas, why and how are we still needed?
Mastering the Problem:Your unique reason of being today, and your “unique edge”, is in the human element. Skills and technology and ideas - once the staple of competitive edge [a term outdated in a world of crazy collaborations] - come cheap(r). To just about anyone. For example, if we thought having a social network was still the latest path to billionaire glory, we haven’t yet known Ning.
The ability of a person to make unique connections, and sustain …