Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 107
This show is spending lots of time helping us think about the Future of Unknowns. In last week’s episode I focused on specific Creative and Entrepreneurial concepts and behaviors that should be especially helpful as you make your way.
Let’s focus on Social capital networks, one of three types of capital economists study.
Financial capital is money and all its equivalents. Human capital is the personal strengths an individual possesses. They are commodities—my dollar isn’t worth more than yours and no matter how smart someone is I will be able to match them even if I have to hire two people to pull it off.
Social capital is all the resources found in your relationships; the trust and generosity you have invested in those relationships results in a network of folks you can draw upon for support, information, and opportunities.
In an Unknowable Future your Social capital network helps folks pool resources, share information, and collaborate to navigate difficulties.
In times of rapid and unpredictable changes current information is valuable and a dynamic network shares what it’s learning.
Many opportunities, like jobs or investment opportunities, are not publicly advertised but are shared within networks. A robust Social capital network increases access to these “hidden” resources.
One measure of a Social capital network is its size but just as important is its diversity. 50 people all telling you the same thing isn’t efficient, maybe not even effective.
A network half that size that is populated by folks from backgrounds that deliver very different perspectiveS on the world is both effective and efficient.
The best way to build your network? Be generous with others—share your time, your contacts, your knowledge—and they will want to do the same for you.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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