Atypical Engineer

The Corona Virus quarantine is bringing people back into our lives that we haven't had consistent contact in years. The opinions of your college friends were important in college, but are they still important, 10 years later?

Day 1 of 75 of a new show concept, where I lay out my goals and ambitions for the next 75 days related to this podcast. 

After listening to my first four podcasts, I realized something. My podcast sucks. It's boring and monotone. The content is dry. There are no guests. There is very little storytelling. It's just bad all around. It's probably about as bad as my writing.

The puzzling thing is that I'm not sure why i expected anything different. Podcasting is a craft. It's an art form.

But the reality is that in order to actually reach people, I need to develop skills in my chosen medium. I could have the best content in the world, but if it's presented poorly then people will listen to something else. 

The whole point of doing this Podcast should be to learn how to create a good podcast.

Going forward, that's going to be my focus. My central theme will be improvement. I'll listen to my episodes, criticize it, and make improvements. 

A theme will eventually emerge, but at this point, it's much more important to master the medium.

In this episode I'm going to take you from being someone who just goes with the flow and give you some real instructions on how to make big plans for your future. 

I'll talk about three types of thinking that you absolutely need to make time for in your life. Harvesting ideas, deciding which opportunities to pursue, and doing short term planning. 

I didn't do any of this before last year and it's made a huge difference in my confidence levels and in the direction of my life. 

You can check a written version on the site

https://engineeringanentrepreneur.com/planning-exercises-to-schedule-time-for/

Engineering Uncertainty is a critical skill for “employee” types trying to move into entrepreneurship.

Life literally conditions employees to avoid uncertainty at all costs. Obviously, taking the safe route can get you a long way, but it can’t get you everywhere. Someone not being told what to do is a very difficult situation if they’ve spent their entire career at a large company. It’s nearly impossible to wrap your mind around the new situation.

This episode talks about two types of uncertainty that beginning entrepreneurs have to deal with. The first is uncertainty on a daily level, and the second is uncertainty in a long term timeframe.

It also discusses three real life strategies to use that will help you to start engineering uncertainty in your life! Remember, you need to embrace the uncertainty or else you will revert back to your default behavior!

This is a huge mental barrier that I am still trying to overcome. I always catch myself thinking thoughts of stability and steady income. While that might be the eventual goal, the path on which I travel to that end actually matters. I have to catch myself and correct my thinking.

This episode also delves into a few cool things that happened to me this week. I actually ran into someone who has listened to one of my podcasts, which is crazy. The podcast only has 12 plays total, so it’s an incredible coincidence. I also talk about just getting started with your project, and how cool it is to show initiative and have it pay off.

In this episode I introduce my Mental Brief and talk about three ways that people with Employee Mindset fail to see opportunity. 

Listen as I introduce what I want to do with this project and explain to you how my perspective is unique. It's my first time doing a podcast ever, but like I say...It's all about the process!