Free You Majored in What? by Katharine Brooks Page A

various jobs or activities you’ve enjoyed. How did you make them right through recrafting?
• Name three things that went right today. Better yet, name three things that have gone right with your job search recently. Perhaps reading this book is one of them. What did you do to make them happen?
• Develop an “attitude of gratitude” by focusing on what has worked well in your life. Or try thinking of three things you’re grateful for today. You might even want to create a gratitude journal, writing down the large and small things you’re grateful for, like that great coffee shop that’s located on your way to class or work. By the way, this also works when you can’t sleep. Instead of thinking about all the things you need to be doing, or haven’t done, focus on the three things that went right during the day.
    On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rank your use of the positive mindset?

    If you were going to tell an employer about your strength in using a positive mindset, what example(s) would you use?
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    MINDSET 6: THE GLOBAL (INTERNATIONAL) MINDSET
    You’d have to have been living in a cave to have missed all the buzz about globalization. The world seems to shrink every day—we are not on an isolated island, nor should we strive to be. A global mindset goes beyond tolerance of another culture to appreciation and understanding. People with global mindsets go out of their way to study other cultures and languages, and immerse themselves in new places and experiences. The global thinker understands that our worlds are enhanced by appreciating, valuing, and incorporating ideas from other countries and cultures. We even understand ourselves better when we understand others.
    Why Would an Employer Care About Your Global Mindset?
• Even small organizations are increasingly international in nature if only because the Web has created customers or clients from around the world. They have a need for workers with global knowledge and understanding.
• Leaders, in particular, need to have global mindsets to be able to develop far-reaching visions for their organization.
• Workers who can speak other languages and understand and appreciate other cultures are highly prized in the workplace. They already have a strategic advantage over employees who don’t possess the same skills and knowledge.
• The organization that is global in its thinking has a strategic and competitive advantage in the marketplace.
    How You Can Develop or Use the Global Mindset
• Expand your world: seek opportunities to immerse yourself in people, places, and experiences that are new and out of your comfort zone. Deliberately seek experiences that you might find uncomfortable and go in with an attitude for learning.
• Study abroad—or better yet, volunteer or work abroad so you are more fully immersed in the culture.
• Seek out students at your school who are not native to your country and listen to their perspective. Ask them what they like about college. What do they dislike? What has been hard about adapting to American culture? What mistaken assumptions do Americans possess about their culture?
• Seek out courses that will teach you about cultures, languages, and international issues. Go with an open-minded attitude and a desire to learn. Consider studying a language that’s completely unknown to you, such as an Asian or Middle Eastern language if you’re most familiar with European languages. Download a foreign language podcast and take the first lesson. Understanding someone else’s language will help you better understand their culture.
• Immerse yourself in an unfamiliar culture or country by reading books or watching films native to that culture or country.
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