Personal Innovation as Career-fit

Discover Pairs of Opposite Themes of career experience and beyond

There are many ways for achieving personal innovation. One way is reflecting on your career experience. Inspired by a previous article Platform Innovation as Concept-fit, I created the above diagram for my own personal innovation.

I use Career-fit to name this new framework. The Career-fit framework has four key words: Experience > Themes > Projects > Opportunities. It roughly suggests the following five steps for personal innovation:

• Reflect on career experience
• Discover pairs of opposite themes
• Fit all pairs of opposite themes
• Join or initiate relevant projects
• Fit career themes with career opportunity

The above diagram shows three Pairs of Opposite Themes of my career experience.

• China v.s. America
• Theory v.s. Practice
• Concept v.s. Diagram

If you read my previous articles, you probably know a term called Themes of Practice. The term refers to a bridge between individual life themes and collective cultural themes. Anthropologist Morris Opler (1945) developed a theoretical “themes” for studying culture. Career counseling therapists and…