Silver Linings

The headlines have settled down. The holiday season is over and people are back to work – those who have jobs, that is. Just read the other day about Wall Street bankers now trying their hands at comedy. Some of them may actually be glad several years from now that they found their true calling.

Losing a job forces people to to develop new perspectives. The same old routine cannot continue. Reassessing potential can be devastating or illuminating. As Tony Robbins makes the point in this inspiring TED Video, our choices shape our destiny. People losing their jobs can believe that their worth is destroyed or they can infer that they have been given a fresh chance to do things differently. How they act on this inference determines, to a large extent, their success or their failure in future.