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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
Today's tip is to strengthen your story.
As you are figuring out how to talk about yourself in your next moves, you can choose how to spend your time to create a coherent narrative.
Today's topic came to mind because I've been spending a lot of time looking into college admissions.
I have a handful of teenagers and as everyone keeps hearing, college admissions are more competitive today than ever before.
Lots of kids have good grades and good SAT scores.
So what makes you stand out?
Enter the narrative. College counselors advise young people to construct a story about the great things they've been doing that make them unique.
And then if you are doing this before your senior year, you can add activities or projects to the mix that make this narrative more cohesive.
So for instance, if you've spent a lot of time playing on your school's soccer team, but you're not getting recruited for this, you could spend your summer volunteering at a youth soccer camp and start a podcast devoted to high school soccer.
Now the admissions committee can start referring to you as the recreational soccer fan, which is a more interesting hook.
If you have been doing a lot of art in high school, maybe you choose one format to make yours.
Let's say it's mosaics and stage some project that makes you stand out.
Perhaps you do a mosaic about each zip code that sends kids to your high school and you display this project at the local library.
Now of course, all this can inspire some eye rolling.
How many 17 year old kids actually think this way?
They generally don't. It's their parents or the college counselors they're paying for advice who help come up with all this.
But be that as it may, this is a useful life skill.
Because it turns out that people are going to be seeking stories that make sense for your entire life.
Being able to identify a narrative and then strengthen it can make it seem like whatever you'd like to be your next step seems like the natural next step.
So for instance, if you're changing careers from accounting to teaching, that is awesome.
Your math skills will be in demand.
But as you are applying to teacher certificate programs, people are going to want to know why you are doing this.
If you've taught a night class and financial literacy at your church or at a local community center, you can note that you enjoyed that experience and decided that teaching was what you wanted to do from now on.
That story makes a lot more sense.
People running for office need to do this too.
You often hear that someone has a great story.
Some of this you can't control like your family background.
But ambitious would be politicians think about their early jobs and volunteering gigs with this in mind.
It generally doesn't work to just say, well, you know, I worked in this congressman's office and figured I could do it too.
You need a story about growing up in the town and seeing your family's business struggle to do X because of a certain policy.
And you spent why time working on it and now you're running for office to change it.
That story makes sense.
Every time I write a book, people ask me why I wrote the book and again, they want an origin story.
Some of my competition will come up with a story of their hitting rock bottom and life craziness.
And then they turn to time management or productivity to pull themselves up from the muck.
I will freely...
