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Work is not a place, it is a mindset | Gabriel Jourdan | TEDxBodensee


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Today I do not just want to talk about the topic

from the day we just heard

establish

I would also like to affirm and

I also want a living

example of these ideas show and also

just show what has to happen with it

such concepts as coworking et cetera

can work in our world

So I want to talk about work

they will now think what should

a 26 year old just yesterday

received his University Degrees

thanks it actually so what should a 26

tell years old work at all

and admittedly I may still be

for a long time no expert in the topic of work

but yes as I just said I want

today an alternative to present a

concept as well as it is

can work

Since yesterday I am not a student

I can not do more since yesterday

more to 12:00 noon me sleep

the whole day of frozen pizza

feed and live in dgs since yesterday

I am in the eyes of society

So a fully trained

Member that means I have to

decide

I have to make decisions like what

should become me

Where do I find where to find work

I move my food center

and those are just the decisions

a young people me in the beginning

his career alone

What if social relationship now

Organizational interactions such as family

or friends will come into play

that leads to an increased

complexity of this situation

I make it my friends and family

to see somehow more often than on

Round birthdays or important ones

Holidays like where do I lay my

Lebenspunkt I have a vision

a vision in which i see a world in

A young man getting started

his career no longer asks such questions

I have to be able to see your world

in life, stop working

it is determined but the work but

That ‘s why life is the job

Definitely for me, this vision

already become reality

tomorrow I will move. I’ll move

back to my hometown

I move back to where one

Much of my family still lives where

my friends live where i live again

for my old sports clubs

can get involved from my new apartment

out I’m going to go up five minutes

walk to my uncle to my aunt

they just need your third child

expect

I will be able to see like my new one

coo his two siblings are growing up

Become an active part of yours

be an active part of your life

I do not have a long-distance relationship

But more with my girlfriend lead

i have no work and mine

Hometown found but in Hong Kong

On the other side of the world has been around

over one and a half years i work for

a technology startup that of one

Canton Reading founded in Hongkong

has been

I’m big there and a global one

marketing in charge of my five

Colleagues all work from Hongkong

Made by tool that most of the time

Germany is not always easy

and I have two times by the year

Hong Kong fly or want it too and

There together with the team on site together

but i want this

flexibility for nothing more in the world

want to be able to exchange my

vision had to be reality

I start the borders in my head

to overcome and rethink

Let me tell you what I mean

recently met with two friends

good friends in the cafe and we have

entertain us and of course it works

as with prospective graduates or

alumni now also work and the

Career and his friend asked me

Then tell me, when did you go?

in the morning to work

when do you always go in the morning?

to work that sounds now for the first time

after a sentence each one of us

every day and also like

probably answered at nine o’clock

In the morning

when do you always go in the morning?

to work

The more often I listen to this sentence

the more I actually recognize that

less of that describes that me

meanwhile I understand work

recognize this sentence alone

I think three of them because they show me how

yes no longer contemporary our today

understanding of work partly still

are you currently in the

I find that that

what we hear in this sentence

not exactly what that describes

I work for me

I would like to mention at this point

Okay, these ideas are now in this

be heard day

they are not readily on the

entire part of society

transferable but mainly for

the part of the knowledge society valid

as we already heard

it is a very big and

will always and always in the future

grow

that means I am firm

convince everyone that something of these

learning ideas or even from them

can benefit

Let us ask this question again

take a closer look

when do you always go in the morning?

to work

I have been in the last four months

I have three different ones

continents worked out

I sat in countless co-working

spaces cafes in libraries

i have airplanes from hotellobbys

from taxis at a campfire in the

yosemite-park from correctly spaces like

I have worked out and said

sometimes even in the office as you

I can not go see work

work in the knowledge society the

in my opinion no place to the

It is rather a man

Creation process that takes place in the head

no more wood screws glue etc are

Fundamentals of the creative process

but knowledge is in the head

instead of finally asking from where work

She likes to tell me then one

or maybe yes from the couch

at home or in a cafe around the corner from

he might say one to the library

Another I like to work out of the train from

outgoing objects or says

maybe even someone i like to go

into the office and that’s perfect too

okay so that’s good what we do

It should be understood that everyone is human

in different places

the world feels comfortable and maybe

even at different times of the day

a different place requires one

different places needed around

to be productive around yourself

feel comfortable

it comes in the knowledge society, then

to an alienation of the words work

and workplace

the latter is for me

just a tool to increase

individual productivity and that

well-being

many will say okay now if now

nobody comes to work anymore and only

still working from Coburg in spaces from

then we do not always see

really what does he really do

I can be productive on my own

experience I then sit

somehow next to my colleague on

calculator

and it is very hard to just that

to control or somehow in

He knows how to work in some way

it’s really because we are

of the knowledge society

and no longer work only on the

Calculator takes place next to the head

that is, in my opinion must

we are free from this delusion

make the physical presence in

an office or room control

I want to do that instead

We plead for that at first

to create the people’s structures

motivate and empower them

to work independently

the second part of the question or that

second think that had my opinion

after just not up to date anymore

the knowledge society is if now

in saxony again

when do you always go in the morning?

to work

a large part of our population in

Central Europe is fortunately

no longer dependent on it

sunrise to bring in the harvest

to make the best and the thickest

potatoes somehow have up in the morning

can sell to the market and as we do

just heard already have come

many of our structures are still out of the

time of agriculture and from the

industrialization

there was who is working longer is with

or highly likely

also more productive because of yourself

productivity on the ratio of output

the input measures how many

bicycles I can do it for example

in one hour of work

assemble this now sounds like

a concept for that

society is still valid

I say no how does it explain itself to

Example or how to measure for example

then brainstorm in the morning in

a second when brushing his teeth has the

leads to a million idea how to do

I measurable that

more important still parkinson’s law would like

i briefly explain them to parkinson

law says that work always works in

the extent it expands how much time you give it

at your disposal

provides

each of the I at the uni my

housework has been written

probably agree with me and also

confirm to what amazing

achievements of the last hour before

is still able to donate that is what

we learn from it

in my opinion should be 40 hours

no longer be the measure of all things

Of course there are already solutions for this

that looks like this

executive floor gets in with the people

my company does not want 40

hours more work then will be in the

Silent room included and

change management adviser still somehow

there it comes and at the end that comes

product from it what the somehow

should represent the working world of tomorrow

the 35 hours week is mine

opinion after all not a bad start

because people have to work less

or just have to parkinson law

Do the work in less time

with rome with high probability

It will also be possible to have a good friend

from me once said if at

our car squeals the brake

then we put the radio louder so

we do not hear the noise anymore or

we change the brake disc from me

find a 35 hour week instead of one

40 hours a week

just a turn up the volume

in the radio the problem is not

namely solved based further

on the same pattern and indeed

on the unit of time when we

want to change how people work

then we have to start this

existing structures have these limits

overcome and rethink work

does not always start at the same time

No one starts at the same time

with the work in my opinion

should the biorhythm for it should

we were determined to work

start and when we stop it

many of my friends are for example

why at night most productive why force

So we’ll get you to work in the morning

what start me to my

third think pattern of the beginning

Asked question of my friend brings

gabriel he said when will you leave

in the morning always to work

which shocked me too briefly because

I thought so well I’m not going to

job

I do not always start with it necessarily

in the morning and certainly not when I am

actually always work

who wants that already did that

relatively a simple reason i am

I already said that at the beginning

Do not want to stay in a world for much longer

live in my life through work

is determined

instead, I imagine a world

in my life the work itself

So the other way around, that determines the

I align my work with my life

believe or I can do that from many

Talk to friends or

Working colleagues say that in many

we still have an outdated picture

We take work and that is what we take

this as an unconditional part of

Day from Monday to Friday from 9 to

5 o’clock was

For example, if we go in the morning

need to stay home and package

because the parcel courier somehow

only a very small time window

When he has these deliveries

stores or our child become ill

is and then we have to drive to the doctor then

we take our time off we free ourselves

from the work I think is actually

it’s a daring lineup but me

actually should be exactly the other way around

be

we should but from live free

take to work

my life is really what

we are the only thing we have and that

only thing that matters is it

obviously easier said than done

and especially in the knowledge society

that is also criticized a lot it has

his shadow pages because work and

live more and more disappear because of the

boundaries between work and life

blur and we need it

possibly health and safety law we

we may need too

fixed times maybe someone needs

fixed times so that he knows you hear

I get up to work and then start

me with it

for your own protection but I think this

process this entire process of

The change begins in which we

Rethinking where we start work new

to learn so what does that actually mean

for us and which one should be

play work in my life

I think we should go away from

one of the picture of work as

a monster every day of monday

until friday the hours from nine to

Five days to get an action

on achieving concrete goals

and on productivity instead of activity

Often it is based so it is said yes

I’m really at work but that

question is one works then also

really or is one just active

so sorts sorted only somehow

a few papers or something and

for someone else to say yes

the human is currently working in but

Reality sees it completely in the head

it is different from there

probably yawning at the moment

empty

I want all these claims

Of course, I would like to join

examples from my own life

to underline

how can we do that at all?

that we are just those concrete

have goals

how do we manage that productivity?

and not activity determines the work

in our team it looks like that

each team member meets once a week

concrete goals it sets to the end

the week wants to have reached

From these you can aim a smaller one

downsize or derive partial goals

what a very good day planning

allows but we do not use

project management plan or any one

excel-table to achieve these goals

concretise what we do is

we direct these directly from one

parent vision from a vision

we all share the omnipresent

is where we want to go, what is and what

our organization goal is good now

if some ask if you are in

Germany is and your colleagues

then sits in Hong Kong and yours too

Chief of the founder sits in Hong Kong

I can not control anybody

why do not you just release it then?

why do not you have less goals?

why does not you give yourself less

tasks and live more like me

just said it actually has too

a relatively simple reason why I

do not do that

and I can with the with the

identify and have organization

a very great interest in that

it will continue to exist

In addition, my connection to these is based

Colleagues to this organization not so

very much on formal institutions like

contracts rather than

institutional apology

institutions

such as a value code, for example

is called a catalog of values ​​in the

Trust above all else

Above all, I trust my own

In contrast, employees will be me

trusted why should

So I cheat on you

that allows me one in my everyday life

very high flexibility I can

for example, relaxed in the morning with

my girlfriend in the gym

train or shop in the afternoon

go

as I was the last of another

told her friend she asked me

yes, do you even come on yours then

eight hours

if I’m on the spot now just like that

leave

In summary, one can say that

Work for me no place is on

you go

the workplace is only one

tool for increasing the

individual productivity and that

well-being productivity begins

the place of time even if you

sometimes difficult to measure though

Nevertheless, it is much more important that you

just this institutional one

institutions informal institutions

subordinate the values co the cs or

like

that means that we have one

have increased flexibility in everyday life

and the work is not the work

It is life-oriented and not

the other way round

well now with probably

somehow still everyone say yes gabriel you

yes have a small team the seat in

Hongkong you have a product somehow

what is being done online and your job

allows every year that’s not true

quite naturally, these are these

in which I got in there structures

or I myself too

have created are natural

conducive to it but I have everything

started that I started

to think that I’m limiting this

for old understanding of work

I think we should overcome

stop in these old patterns and

thinking structures just because we have something

It has not always been done

so that we always do it that way

in the future if we have that

then create completely new

wonderful things must parent

For example, it is no longer the question

Do you ask your children from the

Rip out familiar school routine

just because a parent has one

found job in another city

a student like me or former

I have to be a student like I am in the beginning

his career no longer ask where

does it even take me anywhere

I lay my food spot where

i find work i have many of mine

friends asked you can

Actually imagine after the master at

Lake Constance to stay alive

the answer was always

the same in any case but I think

no work here

So, when we work together

want to shape the future then should

every single one of us with it

Begin to ask what work for

means him or her at all

Thank you very much

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