Change requires time, so the idea of flipping overnight from one profession to another is not realistic. Intermediate steps may be necessary. For example, enrolling in an evening course while holding down a full-time job, working toward obtaining a certification over time or taking up a side project that might not generate the desired returns in the short run. Being realistic about the time it takes to make a major change prevents frustration when progress takes longer than you had hoped.

Patience

When you walk away from your current career, be prepared to face external judgment from colleagues, friends, family, and other professionals in your sector. Most people who want change are generally motivated by internal values and priorities others can’t necessarily see, e.g., more time with family, more fulfilling work and more personal growth.
For example, landing a cushy promotion is easy to spot. However, gaining more personal fulfillment might be less obvious to the casual observer. That means you can’t get too fazed by external judgment or criticism from people on the outside looking in who think your career seems off-track.

Being resilient when you start over

Moving off of a linear career path shifts you toward having a less conventional career. That means you might need to take a less conventional, more creative approach to open up opportunities. For example, instead of relying on job boards or traditional recruiters who tend to favor traditional candidates, you might need to focus on relying more on building connections through networking.

Resourcefulness

Changing careers is not for the faint of heart. It requires dedication and persistent commitment to creating the change you desire. It means continuing to move forward even when you feel like you’ve exhausted all of your options, making one more phone call, going to one more networking event or applying to one more position. Often that final push is what makes the difference, and that requires commitment and drive, remaining laser-focused on where you’re trying to go and not staying down for too long when facing hurdles along the way.

Drive

There are two ways to think about starting over.<ul><li>There’s the dramatic kind: a full-stop start over. A divorce happens. Start over. You’re terminated from a job. Start over. An accident happens. Start over.</li><li>Another type of fresh start is the daily reset. This is just waking up and choosing to have a fresh mind and set of intentions for a new day. It’s not as dramatic as a full-stop life change. It’s more subtle and straightforward. It’s the simple decisions we make to want to be better dads, moms, lovers, and leaders. It’s about setting goals to be better, that come from a desire to experience li<warningtag>fe more sweetly.</warningtag></li></ul>

The full-stop start over vs the daily reset

Starting over almost always involves making a decision with an element of risk. Whenever you walk away from anything in which you’ve invested time, you really never know if you’re going to uncover something better or worse than your current situation. This is why moving on is often harder than holding on. At some point, though, you have to be willing to take a brave leap in order to pursue more meaningful work. Playing it safe is often not enough to deliver the kinds of significant shifts that make a real difference to your circumstances.

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It's never too late to start over and build the life you want

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How To Start Over: Reboot Your Life

Start over in your professional life: How you can put yourself on a new career path.

Full-fledged restart is scary. But I’ve found that those full-stop second chances in life end up being monumental breakthroughs in people’s lives.

How to Start Over In Your Career: One Day At A Time

Energy consumption in stores can be reduced by 30–50 percent by modernising lighting, refrigeration, heating, ventila­tion, air condi­tioning, and cooling alone. Saving energy in stores can fall into four categories:<ol><li>net-zero stores</li><li>net-zero warehouses</li><li>net-zero fleets</li><li>sustainable manufacturing (for vertically integrated grocers)</li></ol> Each category has levers that are less and more disruptive. A potentially powerful lever is redesigning the grocer's network of distribution centres to shorten routes.

Decarbonizing grocery operations (Scope 1 and 2)

Grocers can create transparency around current GHG emissions along the entire value chain.<ul><li>Scope 1. Direct emissions from grocers' operations.</li><li>Scope 2. Emissions from the generation of electricity and heat that grocers purchase</li><li>Scope 3. Emission from agriculture, food processing, waste, and transport upstream, as well as transportation, consumption, and waste downstream.</li></ul>Scope 1 and 2 emissions account for about 7% of the total, while 93% of emissions are outside the grocer's direct control.

Most emissions are outside the direct control of grocers

Transforming the global food system will take many years. Grocers are well advised to embark on their decarbonization journeys today and position themselves at the forefront of the trans­formation by pursuing initiatives across three areas:<ul><li>Get the basics in place. Increase transparency around key sustaina­bility metrics and implement a scope 1 and 2 abatement strategy.</li><li>Develop a compelling sustainability value proposition to consumers.</li><li>Explore opportunities for disruptive business building.</li></ul>

Making it happen

Unless people reduce CO2, methane, and other greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, sea levels will rise, and disastrous weather events may happen. The food system accounts for more than 30 percent of global GHG emissions, and the grocery sector has a unique opportunity to become the driving force for the decar­bon­ization of the entire food system while saving costs.

Cutting back on carbon emissions is a universal mission

<ul><li>Europe has set targets for reducing GHG emissions to achieve net zero by 2050. </li><li>Internationally, Glasgow's UN Climate Change Conference had the first concrete methane reduction pledges.</li><li>In New Zealand, the government plans to charge farmers for the methane emissions from the animals they keep.</li><li>In the Netherlands, plans to slash emissions associated with livestock farming gave rise to nationwide protests by farmers.</li></ul>

Regulations

<ol><li>Provide more sustainable options, including both branded and private-label (PL) products. Substituting beef with plant-based alternatives can lead to a 90 percent reduction in emissions. Additional assortment-related levers include refillable packaging, products sold without any packaging, and reduced package size.</li><li>Create transparency for consumers. all PL products in a grocer’s assortment should have labels specifying their impact on consumer health and the environment.</li><li>Collaborate with farmers.</li><li>Collaborate with small and medium-size suppliers</li><li>Set ambitious targets for major CPG companies.</li></ol>

Five strategies to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions

The pressure from multiple stakeholders to make grocery sustainable is growing. <ul><li>37 percent of European consumers deeply care about sustainability. Many consumers already pay more for sustainable options that are also beneficial to themselves. </li><li>Sustainable employers stand a better chance to attract, retain and inspire purpose-driven people. </li></ul>

Sustainable grocery

The bulk of grocery emissions occur during production and consumption. The biggest challenges is the key role dairy and meat play in the Western diet. The global cattle population is among the top three for GHG-emissions.

Decarbonizing food production and consumption (scope 3)

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Elon Musk is one of the most influential people in the world, but his success is a result of deliberately subverting norms and challenging expectations.Though financial resources differ greatly among entrepreneurs, a calculated media strategy is something every entrepreneur can add to their toolkit. Let's unpack Musk's rise to fame, from his publicly celebrated business successes to his Twitter game, to see how any entrepreneur can take a note from Musk's playbook.

How Elon Musk Breaks The Rules

In the heat of the dot-com boom, Musk invited the cameras to get a first-hand look at his success.Although it was difficult for the public to understand the inner workings of Silicon Valley and VC money, Musk created an instantly recognizable icon in his sports car.

Strategy 1: Pour Gasoline on The Fire

<ul><li>In his early ventures, Musk lost control of his own companies</li><li>With Zip2, his investors appointed a more experienced leader, Richard Sorkin, to position the company for an acquisition</li><li>After his second company, X.com, became PayPal, he was again fired from his role as CEO while he was away from the office</li></ul>

Strategy 2: Make Your Business Personal

Entrepreneurs know that the key to success is to stay laser-focused on their goals and objectives. Yet while Musk is so busy that he sleeps on an uncomfortable couch at the office, he always has time for the spotlight.With the exception of Bill Nye, most scientists aren't drawn to the big screen. Except Musk, who can be spotted in Iron Man 2 rubbing shoulders with Tony Stark, on South Park and The Simpsons, and hanging out with Howard on The Big Bang Theory. For someone focused on advancing mankind, Musk spends a calculated amount of time crafting his image.

Strategy 4: Ignore Your Lane

As an entrepreneur, remember that everything you post is a reflection of you and your business. When Musk posts nerdy memes, he's affirming that he's a part of a subculture that many of his customers associate with. When he offers emergency assistance to Ukraine, he's demonstrating the viability of his business goals. When he posts updates about his business, he's signalling to the world and his employees that he's in charge.What appears random is all a part of the bigger media strategy. Think about the image and signals you want to convey, and engage accordingly.

Strategy 5: Say What's on Your Mind

Rather than focusing on a clear path to profitability, Musk declares impossible feats to the world, such as getting humanity to Mars before he dies. People love rooting for success against all odds. As one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, Musk positions his companies as "Davids" by creating seemingly unbeatable "Goliaths."As an entrepreneur, your goals are more than financial and operational. Set goals with the power to motivate your workforce, attract an investor or engage your customers.

Strategy 3: Set Unrealistic Goals

You are where you are because you challenged a convention, did something in an unexpected way or created something new. Know your end goal, and craft your image around it. From there, you can determine which rules were made to be broken, and how you will bend them in your favour.

Break The Rules

Bend and break those rules, Elon Musk style.

Five business strategies you can steal from this groundbreaking entrepreneur's playbook.

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The Richest Person on Earth Breaks Every Rule, And You Should Too

Equating moral superiority with a positive outcome and moral inferiority with a negative outcome.Example: He won the election because he was morally superior to the loser.

Moral Luck

The overestimation of ability when one has little experience.Example: The market firm’s new hire was confident he’d designed the perfect ad campaign, but it ended up losing money.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Focusing on one trait (positive or negative) as being indicative of the whole.Example: “Brad must be a great entrepreneur; he’s amazing at golf!”

Halo Effect

We tend to accept the outcome of an argument only if it matches what we believe. Example: All fish can swim, and whales can swim; therefore, whales are fish.

Belief Bias

We seek out (and retain) information that confirms what we already believe.Example: Flat Earthers base their beliefs on a feeling, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

Confirmation Bias

You interpret evidence that disproves your belief as a confirmation of it.Example: You insist the world is flat because NASA faked all those photographs of Earth.

Backfire Effect

We put too much trust in automated systems to fix our mistakes.Example: “Grammarly suggested it; therefore, it’s correct.”

Automation Bias

We don’t store information in our brains that’s conveniently found online.Example: “Who was that actor in the latest Marvel film? I’ve Googled it like ten times...”

Google Effect (aka Digital Amnesia)

We make irrational decisions just to avoid conflict.Example: Jackie wants to go bowling. Joe wants to buy a cake for a dinner party. You suggest getting a cake in the shape of a bowling ball.

Groupthink

We chalk failures up to the situation while taking all the credit for our successes. Example: You earned that A through hard work & skill. Meanwhile, you got a poor grade because of external factors: bad professor, team assignment, etc.

Self-Serving Bias

The assumption that others act only out of self-interest.Example: “The only reason the boss gave us a bonus is to squeeze extra work out of us.”

Naïve Cynicism

We go against orders, especially when we see them as an assault on our freedoms.Example: “I don’t care if your sign says masks are required. I can do whatever I want.”

Reactance

We assume others agree with us by default.Example: “Everybody knows that!”

False Consensus

We privilege those in our ingroup over those in an outgroup. Example: Jackie works in your division, so you value her more than John, who works over in accounting.

Ingroup Favoritism

We think people are paying far more attention to us than they are.Example: Josh is worried everyone at work will notice he needs new shoes.

Spotlight Effect

The tendency to blame others for your mistakes out of self-protection.Example: Brad scapegoats Jill for submitting a bad company report even though he did all the research.

Defensive Attribution

Believing the world to be inherently just, we interpret injustice as bad karma.Example: Jackie broke her ankle because she made fun of Jill’s medical condition.

Just-World Hypothesis

We make decisions based on first impressions.Example: “The label says gluten-free. It must be good for me!”

Anchoring

We see ourselves as more immune to media than others.Example: “See how brainwashed you’ve become?!”

Third-Person Effect

We judge everyone else on character but blame our shortcomings on the situation.Example: If Jane is late for work, she’s lazy. If you’re late for work, it’s because of traffic.

Fundamental Attribution Error

We believe that everyone knows the same things we do.Example: Jane gets frustrated with her son for not understanding multiplication right away.

Curse of Knowledge

We make snap judgments based on the most recent information.Example: When an airline reports a crash, ticket sales go down until people forget about the incident.

Availability Heuristic

We privilege our “objective” view of reality over all others.Example: “I see things for what they are—everyone else is misinformed.”

Naïve Realism

We see ourselves reflected in things that could apply to many.Example: “Today’s horoscope was spot-on!”

Forer Effect (aka Barnum Effect)

A quick note about cognitive biases. What are they? Why is knowing about them crucial? All humans make systematic errors in thinking—hurting our judgment. Being aware of cognitive biases will make you less susceptible to them.

Cognitive Biases

Concepts, trends, and beliefs catch on as more people validate them.Example: Jill believes buying an LV bag will make her look chic. Janet does, too.

Bandwagon Effect

This is the first part of 50 cognitive biases, as tweeted in an infographic by Elon Musk. 

Understand yourself and those around you.

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25 Cognitive Biases, As Tweeted By Elon Musk

<ul><li>CO2 can be captured directly from industrial sources such as a cement or steel blast furnace</li><li>The vast majority of CO2 capture is too expensive to be viable for now</li><li>One possible solution: novel solvents</li><li>Quantum computing promises to enable more accurate modeling of molecular structure</li><li>Could reduce the cost of the process by 30 to 50 percent</li><li>Potential to decarbonize industrial processes</li></ul>

Harnessing Air: CO2 Capture

Twenty percent of annual greenhouse-gas emissions come from agriculture-and methane emitted by cattle and dairy is the primary contributor (7.9 gigatons of CO2e, based on 20-year global-warming potential).Research has established that low-methane feed additives could effectively stop up to 90 percent of methane emissions, but applying those additives to free-range livestock is difficult.

Reforming Food and Forestry

Currently, solar cells rely on crystalline silicon and have an efficiency on the order of 20 percentPerovskite crystal structures, which have a theoretical efficiency of up to 40 percent, could be a better alternativeThey present challenges, however, because they lack long-term stability and could, in some varieties, be more toxicQuantum computing could help solve these challenges by allowing for precise simulationIf the theoretical efficiency increase can be reached, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) would decrease by 50 percent

Harnessing The Sun: Solar Cells

<ul><li>Improving electrolysis could significantly decrease the cost of hydrogen</li><li>Electrolyzers have delicate membranes that allow the split hydrogen to pass from the anode to the cathode (but keeps the split oxygen out).</li><li>Catalysts and membranes do not yet interact well</li><li>Quantum computing can help model the energy state of pulse electrolysis to optimize catalyst usage</li><li>Increased hydrogen use as a result of these improvements could reduce CO2 emissions by an additional 1.1 gigatons by 2035</li></ul>

Harnessing Air: Hydrogen

With $3 to $5 trillion in value at stake in sustainability, according to McKinsey research, climate investment is an imperative for big companies.Governments have an important role to play by creating programs at universities to develop quantum talent and by providing incentives for quantum innovation for climate, particularly for use cases that today do not have natural corporate partners, such as disaster prediction or that aren't economical.

The Bottom Line

Quantum Computing is a new technology that leverages the laws of quantum mechanics to produce exponentially higher performance for certain types of calculations, offering the possibility of major breakthroughs across several end markets.The technology works by calculating with qubits, which can represent 0 and 1 at the same time. By contrast, classical computing calculates with transistors that represent either 0 or 1. In quantum computing, power increases exponentially in proportion to the number of qubits; with classical computing, power incre

Quantum Computing- A Primer

Quantum computing could help reduce emissions in some of the most challenging or emissions-intensive areas, such as agriculture or direct-air capture, and could accelerate improvements in technologies required at great scale.Quantum computing could bring about step changes throughout the economy that would have a huge impact on carbon abatement and carbon removal

Solving Unsolvable Problems

<ul><li>Improving the energy density of lithium-ion batteries enables applications in electric vehicles and energy storage at an affordable cost</li><li>Quantum computing could allow breakthroughs by providing a better understanding of electrolyte complex formation, by helping to find a replacement material for cathode/anode with the same properties, and/or by eliminating the battery separator</li><li>Higher-density energy batteries can serve as a grid-scale storage solution</li></ul>

Global Warming: Batteries

During calcination in the kiln for making clinker, a powder used to make cement, CO2 is released from raw materials.Alternative cement-binding materials (or "clinkers") can eliminate these emissions, but there's currently no mature alternative clinker that can significantly reduce emissions at an affordable cost.

Global Warming: Cement

The emerging technology of <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/quantum-computing-use-cases-are-getting-real-what-you-need-to-know">quantum computing</a> could revolutionize the fight against climate change, transforming the economics of decarbonization and becoming a major factor in limiting global warming to the target temperature of 1.5°C.Exponentially more powerful machines could make possible major reductions in emissions, putting the goal of limiting global warming within reach.

Quantum Computing And Global Warming

Best known as a fertilizer, ammonia could also be used as fuel. Currently, it is made through an energy-intensive process using natural gas.Other potential approaches include Nitrogenase bioelectrocatalysis.This method is attractive because it can be done at room temperature and at 1 bar pressureQuantum computing can help simulate the process of enhancing the stability of the enzyme, protecting it from oxygen and improving the rate of ammonia production by nitrogenase.

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