Recognizing Your Disruptive Skills

This is an article i came across on the web recently and found pretty interesting so decided to share it with my readers. This article is about recognizing your disruptive skills and employing them in the workplace to get paid for what you're worth. Everyone who works has at some point in his career if not frequently felt that he/she is not being paid for what they're worth. This article helps us, or perhaps shows us the direction in which to look to realize our true potential and present it to the employers.

I have just jotted down some intercepts from the article which i felt were kinda important. If you like these and would like to read the complete article, please click on the heading.

At the onset, and not like usually, i would like to thank Ms. Whitney Johnson for this very beautiful and informative article. Does not do her enough just to write "courtesy Ms. Whitney Johnson"at the end of the article, so thanked her at the beginning itself.

Now the intercepts:

• To actually recognize your Disruptive skills, ask yourself the following questions:

1. What do you do 'Reflexively' well?
   - To help you know this answer, ask yourself, what would you be doing when you don't  have anything to do?
   - What one or two things would you spend your time doing even if you were not being compensated?
   These questions hep you understand what you're actually interested in doing and that is one thing you would definitely be good at.
2. What do others identify as being your best skills?
   - An easy way to find this out is to ask your colleagues to complete this simple sentence: " One of the greatest ways you add value is ___________".
3. Do you have a confluence of skills?

The answers to these questions will help you analyze yourself better and to know your strengths.

• Keep an eye out for those compliments that you habitually dismiss. It is possible you are discounting a strength that others value. The tendency to deflect complements is often understandable and even justifiable, but over the course of our career, it will leave us trading at a discount than what we are worth.
  
  
• While it is likely these proficiencies are not your best skis, but they typically carry a price tag of sweat and tears; and they speak volumes about prospective hires.
  
  
• It is not required that your skills be limited to your profile, your diversified skills give an insight to who you actually are and what you are capable of. Something your degree does not tell.
  
  
• Remember, Innovative ideas do not come from rational thought, but from flash intuition. -Dr. Amar Bose ( Founder of BOSE systems).
  
  
• Disruptive skill and Sustaining skill is the two step guide to success. You recognize your disruptive skills and put them to good use making them sustainable. It is only once they become sustainable, you start to gain or profit from them.
  
  
• Towards the end, know, Achieving your true value does not happen overnight. Most of us begin in a rebar type slot - with assignments, no one wants. But as we gain a foothold in our chosen career, using our disruptive skills to stand out from the crowd, and leveraging our hard-won skills, to get in and stay in the game, we can upend others' perception of our worth. Beginning first as a 'Disruptive-Emerging Growth' story and in time evolving into a 'Best of Breed' story. A sure formula for getting paid for what you're worth not just for a year or two, but for decades.

Hope you guys enjoying reading this. Please share your comments if your have any. :)

Optical control of heart muscles

Came across this article which demonstrated the control of heart muscles in mice to induce artificial fibrillation. One may think why would we want to produce fibrillation, but the thing is if this stimulation can produce arrhythmias, it can also be modified to produce a natural heartbeat, it could become a pacemaker. Then one thinks, we already have pacemakers and they work just fine. Then again, the average life of a surgically implanted very expensive pacemaker is 5-15 years because the energy source, the battery has limited capacity. Here's the interesting part, if we use optical pacemakers, the main advantage is that these work on light production which is done by LEDs or laser sources, preferably the former, which will utilize much less energy per beat, thus increasing the life of the pace maker significantly, MANIFOLD. Thus actually reducing the requirement of another very expensivve surgery to change the pacemaker in pacemaker dependent patients. It will become HUGE a great invention to increase longevity. Eagerly awaiting its development.

The link to the original article is attached for further reference.

Only problem in the article is that it says: "Photostimulation is much more suitable: the cells will even withstand stimulations of several minutes at a time without problems. " . The actual duration of the photo stimulation as of now is limited to a few minutes, future developments will take care of this too making its use continuous and not limiting its use to a few minute or hours, but an entire life-time.

Optical Control of Muscles

This is an article which i came across right now and found it quite informative, so thought it would be a great thing to share. i have enclosed the link to the actual article if you find it interesting. here is a brief description about the article:

In a study involving bio-engineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins, researchers at Stanford University were able to use light to induce normal patterns of muscle contraction.   The new approach allows scientists to more accurately reproduce muscle firing order, making it a valuable research tool. The investigators, from Stanford’s schools of medicine and of engineering, also believe this technique could someday spawn practical applications, from restoring movement to limbs paralyzed by stroke or spinal-cord or brain injury, to countering spasticity caused by cerebral palsy. 


sounds quite beneficial to the human race if it works out..;)