A Good Career Advice!
Catch the change…
Jared Diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” is a beautiful work that is recognized and widely read worldwide. The book discusses the formation process of differences between civilizations within the framework of climate, geography, culture, etc., with an interdisciplinary approach.
Another work that I love very much by Jared Diamond in his book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” explains the reasons for the collapse of some civilizations. This book deals with the high costs humankind had to pay due to the victories won over nature. One of the examples in the book is about the story of agriculture in Australia.
A few years ago, on a university career panel I was invited to, a good question came from the students, “What skills should we focus on for a good career in the future?” This was a critical question reflecting the anxiety of young people at the uncertainty of the future. And I started my explanations by telling this unique story from “Collapse” of Jared Diamond.
The story, as I remembered it, was like this;
# European settlers who first came to Australia thought that the climate and vegetation they encountered was the normal state of the region, and the conditions would always continue like this. They had a long-standing awareness…
