In the Job Digital Lab blog, Ines Makula explains how to explore new directions
Our life journeys and careers are more like a river than a straight line. They do not flow from source to mouth along the shortest route, but change direction, bypass obstacles, and pass through orderly phases and seemingly chaotic stretches.
The mathematician Hans-Henrik Stolum, whilst studying the meandering nature of rivers and streams, observed that the ratio between the actual length of their course and the distance as the crow flies between the source and the mouth tends to approach pi. A river, therefore, can travel a distance more than three times longer than the direct route. Yet, bend after bend, it reaches its destination.
Career paths are often built in the same way: through detours, attempts, mistakes and fresh starts that lengthen the journey, but define its meaning. The story of Inès Makula follows an equally winding course. From the world of cosmetics to a project in the food industry, from consultancy to a start-up, right up to Made IT, the podcast created to tell not only of the results achieved, but above all how they were reached.
In the new article published on the blog of Job Digital Lab – a project created in collaboration with Ing Italia – Nicoletta Vulpetti shares her story and conveys a valuable message: changing direction does not necessarily mean abandoning a path. Sometimes it means exploring it, until you recognise your own way forward.
Ines moderated ‘WeLead: Protagoniste d’impresa’, the event dedicated to women entrepreneurs (Milan, 6 July), and was recently a guest on Radio 1 Rai’s programme ‘L’Italia in diretta’ [see the news item Protagoniste d’impresa on the radio and across the country].
There is no single path. The important thing is to set out on the journey
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