WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Thank you (applause). 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.000 So good afternoon and happy Wednesday everybody. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 I am Naomi Adeline. I am the Polk County Public Health Administrator. 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:18.000 I've been in this role since last year, so for about 10 months now. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 I'm also I'm new to Polk Country. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.000 I am new to Oregon state and I am also new to the United States. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:31.000 So, I feel quite new to this environment but I'm so honored to get the chance 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.000 to come a talk to students today. And I have had an interesting journey. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.000 And I really ope that some of the tips that I get to share today does feel relatable 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:48.000 and maybe help you in your journey. So I called this presentation Reshaping Journey. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:53.000 And I was just looking at what we just did earlier before the sleepy emoji. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 And I saw the word change and I was like, wow! 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:60.000 Some people are thinking of change already. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And I will say that change is one of the words that pushes me. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:11.000 And pushed me to create this presentation for you guys today. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:16.000 And let me try and explain why. So I will have, 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:21.000 I would like everyone to try and think back of 5-years ago and where you were. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:31.000 So that will be, today were in January 2023, so we're talking January 2019. 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:35.000 Think back of January 2018 and where you were. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:41.000 What your 5-year plans were? What you think you would be 5 years from then? 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:47.000 We'll give it a few seconds. I see some thinking faces. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:53.000 Now think of today. Where you are now, what journey you'e on. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:59.000 And whether it's life or career. Now I'd like anyone 00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:66.000 who is on the exact same journey that they thought they'd be on to raise their hands. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.000 Wow, we actually have a few brave souls. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.000 That are actually planning out the journey and living the one that they did. 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:19.000 So I would think that the rest of us, and I'm going to ask you to raise hands, how many 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:24.000 of you are on a completely different journey from where you thought you would be? 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:35.000 It's good to have goals, to have something we're working towards. 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:42.000 But chance is constant and it's going to happen and yes, it's something that we keep. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.000 We see it as interruptions. We see it as messing out friends 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:53.000 And yes, it's unavoidable and technically it's supposed to be expected. 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:59.000 And so, if chance is expected and we have a journey for all of us to go through, 00:02:59.000 --> 00:02:64.000 then what we need to learn to do is accept change. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.000 And not just accept it, but love it, and embrace it. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.000 And build resilience towards the journey that you're going through. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.000 So I'm going to talk a bit about the journey that I've gone through 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.000 And the one that I'm going through and share 10 tips that helped me 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.000 through all the changes that get thrown at me while I'm going through this journey. 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.000 So go to where I started. I did mention that I'm new to the United States. 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:37.000 Where I'm from is called Seychelles Island. Seychelles Island is barely on the map. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.000 I get really excited when I see a world map that has it on the map label. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:45.000 So it's in the middle of the Indian Ocean ,off the east coast of Africa 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:50.000 And that's where I'm from. I keep thinking that if you take a globe and you throw 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:55.000 or you push a stick through Seychelles it's probably going to pop out in Oregon. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:60.000 So I literally came from across the world and moved here. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:06.000 I started off wanting to be a vet or someone who works with animals. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:12.000 Things happened. I ended up going to medical school and I became a physician. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.000 Went there and I was like I'm going to practice and be a clinician my whole life, 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:21.000 switched to public health and left the clinical work behind. 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.000 And then I never looked bac. 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.000 I was working as a public health professional in Seychelles. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.000 And then I joined the global world and joined World Health Organization 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:38.000 to do public health at the global level. And then I left that because my husband 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:42.000 is from here and somebody has to move when Covid closed down the airports. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:50.000 So I dropped that and I moved over here & became a stay-at-home stepmom for a year. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:55.000 After that this opportunity came up and I started working back in public health. 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:61.000 My career is back and I'm loving it. Not what I planned for but I do love it. 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:08.000 So today I will try and explain a bit on my top 10 tips 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.000 on the journey through a career that you hope to achieve 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.000 or the success that you hope to achieve. And I hope that they are relatable. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:22.000 And I'll start with my first tip. Tip 1: Widen Your View. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:31.000 Show of hands when we see 1+1=3, what's the first thing that comes to mind? 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.000 Anyone? Yes. It's wrong. 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:44.000 That is what comes to mind naturally. Now why would you think 1+1=3 is wrong? 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:52.000 It's not 3. What is it? It's 2. So let me ask you this... 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:56.000 I'm hoping that most of us know how to round up, 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.000 or round numbers into whole numbers, right? 00:05:59.000 --> 00:05:66.000 So what is 1.4 rounded up to a full number? 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:15.000 Any brave souls? How to we round 1.4 to a whole number? 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:20.000 It's becomes, what's the number? 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.000 Yes, 1 correct! 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:31.000 Now let's take the same 1.4 unpolished, given to me unpolished as 1.4, 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.000 and we're going to add it to 1.4, what do we get? 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.000 Yes, sure, 1.8 wonderful! 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.000 Now let's round up 1.8, what do we get? 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.000 Ah, 2.8, thank you corrected. 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.000 Let's round up 2.8, what do we get? 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:58.000 Three, wonderful! Wait, did we just do 1+1=3? 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:64.000 I'm going to go back to you, did we just do 1+1=3? 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.000 Wasn't that wrong? So this is a wonderful. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:12.000 This is my #1 tip because this happens a lot. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:18.000 where we all receive information non-stop everyday, right? 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.000 A lot of the information we receive are polished before we receive them. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:29.000 And if we take the information we've received polished, as the fact, 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:33.000 and with all our everything we know, 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:37.000 this is what the information means, we might miss something. 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:42.000 And it doesn't mean that 1+1 does not equal 2, sometimes it does. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.000 And sometimes it's not, it can equal to three. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.000 But it doesn't mean that it's wrong. And that's really a tip for us 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:55.000 to surround ourselves with people who have different beliefs, different answers. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:60.000 Who don't believe in the things that we believe in and sometimes 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:04.000 we can learn things that we wouldn't even have thought of. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.000 It's also an opportunity to remember the information that you receive a lot of time 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:15.000 is polished. Going back & trying to understand where the information came from and 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:21.000 how does it look when it was brought can give us a better view of what's really coming at us. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:26.000 Alright. Tip 2: Be Passionate. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.000 Now some of us are lucky, we're actually doing things that we're already 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.000 passionate about and 5 years ago this is what we wanted to do, 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.000 and this is what we're still doing. For some of us, 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.000 we might have been passionate about something completely different. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.000 But it's not really what we're doing. 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:47.000 However, if you're working for something you're not passionate about 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 that's closer to stressful work. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.000 If you're working on something that you're passionate about, 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:59.000 that's what brings happiness and it brings motivation to keep going. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:63.000 If you're not doing what you think you're passionate about, sometimes 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.000 there are simple things within what you're doing that you are passionate about. 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.000 And if you can find them that really works to keep the motivation up, to keep you happy. 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:18.000 And I'll give an example of how I've had to 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:18.000 apply this to my journey. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.000 When I was young I always thought I do not want to work with people. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:28.000 I want to work with animals, right? Simple. Always happy. Even when they're sick, 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.000 they're really appreciative by the time you help them. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:34.000 And my dream was to become a vet. That switched to I wanted to become a marine 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:39.000 biologist, by the time I discovered the sea and that's all I wanted to do. 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:43.000 Things happen. I ended up in medical school. 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.000 But I realized that my passion was about serving, 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.000 about making the world a better place, about having positive impact 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.000 in the world around me. And as a clinician, that is what I was doing, 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:61.000 not with animals, with people. But it's still technically the same passion. 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.000 And I was able to appreciate that and make sure that I still passionate 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.000 about any work that I'm doing. While I was a clinician, 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:12.000 I was passionate about every single person that I was seeing. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.000 When I went into public health, I no longer saw them anymore. 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:21.000 It was the clinicians and the other careers that were directly seeing people. 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:26.000 And I didn't get to see them but I got to see data and the impact that we were doing. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.000 And now I get to impact some policies that do impact the population. 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:36.000 It's a completely different environment but I'm still really passionate about it. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.000 And I'm really happy in this job. So all these changes and yet 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.000 you can still be passionate about what it is that you're doing. 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.000 If you can't find the passion in what it is you're doing at all, 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:50.000 then my advice would be try to do something different because 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:55.000 it will just be stressful and it will make you unhappy. 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:61.000 Tip 3: Do not let probabilities define your reality. 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:08.000 Now we use this a lot when we're thinking of applying for opportunities. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:12.000 We'll be like, I don't fit the criteria. 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.000 I don't have this minimum requirements that they're asking. 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:19.000 Or I do have the minimum requirements but every job is looking for 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.000 a 30-year-old with 40-years of experience. That's not possible. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.000 I can't be young and be the person with experience, right? 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.000 Well, it's true they put the criteria down all the time, 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.000 but it doesn't mean that just because it looks like the probability 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.000 of being chosen for the opportunity is low, so that means you won't be chosen. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:45.000 Right? So I would say if you see an opportunity that you love, 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:51.000 and you really want to do, even if don't meet all the criteria, apply for it. 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:58.000 Just try. In 2015, I was still in Seychelles working as a physician at the time, 00:11:58.000 --> 00:11:65.000 an opportunity came up to come to the US. They were picking 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.000 young African leaders from all the sub saharan African countries, 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.000 Seychelles is one of the sub saharan African countries, 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:16.000 to go and spend six weeks in a university in the US 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.000 and gain some experience in a different environment 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:24.000 on public policies or how they work there. I applied. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:35.000 And technically I understand why I was not chosen. 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.000 I wasn't really doing the work that I said I will be doing. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.000 And that this opportunity will help me to do. 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.000 And so, you know what, I wasn't chosen and it's fine. 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:46.000 I can still do the work that I wanted to do. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:51.000 And what I wanted to do was to improve health diversity of the population., 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:55.000 Give health tips, simple things that we assume the population knows 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 but they don't and I started this Facebook page. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:12:64.000 This escalated from a Facebook page giving tips, to newspapers wanting columns 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.000 on health promotion topics to TV shows talking about different things that people 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.000 want to hear about. And I started doing that over a year. 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.000 Come 2015, I re-applied, got into the interview stage, 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.000 got through to do my six weeks in Washington DC. 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:27.000 And, had the opportunity to be the top 100 that gets chosen 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.000 to then do work experience and that's where I came to Oregon 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.000 in Multnomah County Public Health Department, spent and extra 6 weeks 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:39.000 to learn about how they do public health compared to where I come from. 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.000 An added bonus, that's also where I met my husband. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.000 So yeah, apply for these opportunities where you qualify for them or not. 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:52.000 You never know what might happen. Now what might happen, 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.000 if you do fail and you don't get that opportunity that you apply for, 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:62.000 and that's ok. Every successful person you will meet that has 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:07.000 gotten this open door that they've walked in and this position that you dream of, 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:13.000 has made multiple mistakes along the way. And has failed multiple times along the way. 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:21.000 If we can change the way we perceive mistakes and the way we perceive failure, 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:27.000 that's the opportunity to learn some of the best skills that you'll ever learn, 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.000 is through the mistakes and failures that you've have. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:36.000 And if I could wish everybody one thing, is to go out, make mistakes, 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:44.000 that are not detrimental. Fail, as long as it's not damaging and learn. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.000 Learn these skills and don't be afraid to fail. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000 Tip 5: Re-define weakness. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:57.000 Now all of us have some many wonderful things that we're just gifted to do. 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:63.000 We're so good at them. But we also have so many things that we're not very good at, at all. 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.000 And those we call weaknesses. But re-define them. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:12.000 Because one weakness in one area might actually be a strength in another. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:18.000 And I'm going to tell you a story about a weakness I had in medical school. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:23.000 Actually since I was very young I found out that I am below average 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:29.000 in learning words by heart. I was the top of my class in math, 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:33.000 I still don't know my time tables. If you give me 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:44.000 or I will draw circles on my exam paper. I just couldn't remember the words. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.000 Now imagine somebody like this going through medical school 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:54.000 doing anatomy with all those words, doing pharmacology with all those names 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:59.000 of medications that all sound the same. It was a struggle. I will tell you that. 00:15:59.000 --> 00:15:65.000 And when it came to exams and having to explain myself after I've 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.000 reviewed a patient, taken the history, done the examination, 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:13.000 I couldn't for the life of me use all these medical jargons. 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:19.000 But I could explain in simple, simple words what the medication is doing in the body, 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:24.000 and how it's helpful to that person, and what's happening - the biochemistry, 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 the physiology. But I just couldn't use the medical jargon. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:32.000 And I keep being hit basically, but verbally, 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.000 about how unprofessional I'm going to sound in the medical field. 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:41.000 when all the doctors are talking to each other and I can't use medical jargon. 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:46.000 Fast forward a few years, I'm practicing medicine nd I'm having to speak to my 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:51.000 patients about the medication they have to take and how it's helpful. 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:57.000 And that became a strength. None of my colleagues could explain in simple terms 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:62.000 why the patient is having what they have and why the medication is helpful. 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:07.000 And that also lead me to go into health promotion and explaining things to people, 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:11.000 starting a Facebook page, going on TV, doing live shows. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:17.000 That was originally a weakness which is now suddenly a strength. 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:23.000 So re-define the weakness you have. They may be strengths in other environments. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:28.000 Tip 6: Nurture and embrace soft skills 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:33.000 Who can name some of the soft skills? 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:41.000 Yes, public speaking, that's a good one. Anything else? 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:48.000 Communication. Being resident to change. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:53.000 Being able to work with people who are completely different from, 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.000 from us, or have completely different beliefs. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.000 These are things that we're not taught when we're getting degrees. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:05.000 But when we go out to the work field, soft skills become really, really important. 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:15.000 Spend time on them, develop them. They are really, really helpful in the workplace 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:21.000 Tip 7: If you don't fit in, stand out! 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:26.000 This really brings me back to, I don't know if anyone has heard this? 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.000 The Impasta Syndrome. Has anyone ever felt 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.000 kike everybody around them seems to be good at what they're doing 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:39.000 someone's going to find out that I don't know half of the things they're talking about. 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:43.000 I'm not really good at half of the things they expect me to be good at. 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:51.000 Has anybody felt that way? Whoo! Has anybody never felt that way? 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:56.000 There is a statistics for that. Usually if you take a group of people. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:62.000 About a 1/4 of the people sometimes get the impasta yndrome. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:06.000 The other 1/4 also sometimes get the impasta syndrome. 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.000 And then you have 1/2 of the people in the room who literally sometimes get 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:17.000 the impasta syndrome. So while we think we're the only person 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.000 who doesn't know what they're doing or doesn't know what they're talking about, 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:27.000 almost everybody has that. You will be in areas where you feel like, 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:32.000 I don't look the part, I don't dress the part. But that type of dressing is not me. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:39.000 I don't fit in. I don't have background that everybody has and that's ok. 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:43.000 However, not fitting in can be helpful. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.000 In some situations, I know not fitting in makes you feel like you stand out 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:51.000 and you're going to be picked on. But it's also an opportunity to get 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:55.000 opportunities because you stand out. And use that time 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:60.000 to be the voice for everybody else. And use that time to 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.000 learn the skills that you're thinking you don't have. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:07.000 Learn from the others, the knowledge that you think you don't have and they have. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.000 But do remember that you're not the only one. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:17.000 And almost feels like the impasta a lot of the times. 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:20.000 Tip 8: Share the knowledge 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:24.000 We have worked really hard to get where we are today. 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:30.000 I know every one of you in this room have worked hard to get to where you are today. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:37.000 There are others who could work just as hard and still not get where you are today. 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:43.000 Whenever you get the opportunity go back and give a helping hand to the ones coming 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:49.000 up on the journey as well. If you learn new knowledge that could be helpful to others, 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.000 share that knowledge. If you have an opportunity to 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.000 give a talk to your peer, teach them what you have learned. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:61.000 And maybe give them the opportunity for them to teach you what they have learned. 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:07.000 This is how we get to keep the knowledge going around and we all gain 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.000 and help each other. We're a community. We're not an island. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:14.000 So whenever possible share the knowledge. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:18.000 Tip 9: Take care of yourself 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.000 We cannot pour from an empty cup. 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:26.000 And this is something I've had to learn over and over again. 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:31.000 Because I'm the type who would leave what I need to do, to go and help 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.000 somebody else because there's this idea that others need more help. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:39.000 And yours can wait. But their are things that can't wait. 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:43.000 You have to rest. You have to take breaks. 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:47.000 You have to take time to re...rejuvenate. 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.000 I'm trying to find the English word - rejuvenate. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:55.000 And then go and help others. So do remember to take care of yourself. 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:60.000 Tip 10: Has anyone taken the Myers Briggs Personality Test? 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:05.000 Show of hands? Wonderful! 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:10.000 I discovered that too late in life. This is a personality test. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:15.000 I'm not an expert in this test, so I did write things down, so I kind of helped with it. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:24.000 So Myers Briggs has 60 characteristics that kind of helps us classify 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:29.000 how we receive information and how we act within our environment. 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:34.000 And our 16 personality types. These 16 personality types each have four letters. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:38.000 And each of those have two possibilities. So the first one is, 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.000 you're either an extrovert or an introvert. 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:45.000 Or you're more of an extrovert than you are an introvert. 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:47.000 You can lean on one side or lean on the other side. 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:51.000 And the extrovert, introvert is how do you gain your energy? 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:55.000 Do you gain your energy more from mingling with people? 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:62.000 Do you gain more energy by being on your own & having some silent time, quiet time? 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:07.000 The second letter is S or I which is sensing or intuition. 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.000 What I'm going to do is move on to what I have. That might be more helpful. 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.000 So I'm more of an extrovert than I am an introvert. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:20.000 The second one is sensing vs. intuition. So how to you select information? 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.000 Sensing is someone that uses their senses to collect information. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:30.000 If I show you a house with five windows and a cat in one window, 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:35.000 and a really dark cloud on the top, a sensing person would tell you 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.000 that this is a house with five windows and a cat in the window and it might be 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.000 about to rain because the clouds up there are dark 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.000 Whereas an intuition person will say, this is a dark environment. 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:52.000 If feel like it's probably an abandoned house and it needs more life. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:59.000 It's more about the vibe and you're using your intuition to receive information. 00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:65.000 I am more of an intuition person. It's an N, sorry not an I. Rather than a sensing person 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:10.000 who would be more of a rational in using the senses to receive information 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:16.000 The third letter is either an F or a T which is either thinking or feeling. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:21.000 And that's how you make decisions, right? And so, an F person 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:27.000 which is feeling, which is what I am, is you make your decision based on how others feel. 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:33.000 Or how you feel right now or how it would impact other people around you. 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:36.000 Whereas, a thinking person would be more rational. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.000 What does the rules say? What's appropriate? Let's go for it. 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.000 Regardless of what the feelings are or what their emotions are at the time. 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.000 And the fourth one is J or P which is judging or perceiving. 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:53.000 And this one is more about how do you organize your environment. 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:57.000 So again, judging people will organize their environment 00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:61.000 based on what works. How people feel. 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.000 How does that impact other people? How does that impact yourself? 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:11.000 Whereas, the perceiving person might be more of we're going to do 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:16.000 according to protocol and be more rational. I might be getting this correctly. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:20.000 I repeat, I am not an expert at Myers Briggs personality test. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.000 But I will tell you how that has been helpful. 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:28.000 When working with a team, this test really tells you what your weaknesses are, 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:31.000 and what your strengths are, and what your personality traits 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:37.000 is good at doing, right? As so with a team, it helps with delegating tasks 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.000 based on who would be much better at doing that task. 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:45.000 When it comes to personal development, showing your weaknesses and showing 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:50.000 your strengths, it really tells you what you're already good at 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.000 and you don't have to pay as much attention to. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.000 And what it is that you really have to intentionally 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:60.000 make and effort to improve on. And these are mine. 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:08.000 My strengths are I'm tolerant, I'm reliable, apparently charismatic and altruistic. 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:12.000 But the things that I really have to intentionally work on 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.000 and I'm really having to do that over and over again is 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.000 I can be to selfless and forget to take care of myself. 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:21.000 And it's something that I have to keep reminding myself. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:25.000 I can be too sensitive and even in the position I am at 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:30.000 I will be thrown with all sorts of insults. I work for public health. 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:35.000 And so that's something I've had to work on. When I was in college I had a 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:41.000 lecturer who used to say, when we're correcting the work that you've done, 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:46.000 and criticizing it, we're criticizing the work, not the person. 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:51.000 The person is still there and can do different work and can do better. 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:58.000 So we have to accept the criticism and learn to separate that to our personal self. 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:65.000 And so I've have to work on that pretty hard. I have fluctuating self-esteem. 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.000 I can feel like I'm really good at my job one day. 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:15.000 And then the next day so like, I am not the person for this. 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.000 I am messing this up. Someone else could've done better. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:22.000 I should have said this. I should not have said this. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.000 Even with public speaking, I actually get stage fright. I may not look like it. 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.000 But I get stage fright because I have this fluctuating self-esteem. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.000 I know that today I'm going to be talking about my journey. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.000 Who knows about my journey better than myself, right? 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:44.000 But there's also that sensing that I'm talking to other people who may not think it's relatable. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:48.000 Who would tell me that one of these tips really don't work for them and this is why. 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:54.000 One, I'm learning to accept that and learning from someone else on how this doesn't work. 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:62.000 But I'm also having to, have the self-esteem to remember if I'm talking about myself, 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:07.000 then it's fine to share it and not be so nervous about it. 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.000 Struggle to make tough decisions - which is really, really funny 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.000 for someone whose an administrator of public health. 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.000 This is something that I'm still struggling with but what I've found is 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.000 we don't have to make decisions by ourselves. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:27.000 And so most of the decisions that I have to make, even though I don't 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:31.000 necessary make one that's someone else's decision. I get the opportunity 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:37.000 to give others and chance to tell me what what they would have 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:42.000 in that position and why. And how this impacts this group and something else that 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:46.000 Impacts a different group that I may have not thought of. 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:50.000 and by the time I need to make a decision, I've taken into accounta 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:55.000 All sorts of perspective and it kind of builds the confidence that you've made 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.000 the best decision that you can make, in the time that you have to make the decision. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.000 That has been really helpful for me. So I do hope that you guys do take the 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:09.000 Myers Briggs personality test. You could look at the two letters and understand them, 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:15.000 and decide which one fits best for you. Or you could go online and take the test. 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.000 If I had a take home message for this group today, 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:25.000 it's the widen your view tip that I had as Tip 1. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:31.000 Always remember that even the answer that seems like it is definitely the right answer, 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:36.000 anybody who thinks otherwise, where are they getting their information from? 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.000 Spend time finding out where they're coming from. 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:44.000 You're going to learn a lot from asking questions as 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:48.000 learning from the people who disagree with you. Thank you. 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:56.000 Applause 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.000 How did I decide I wanted to go to medical school? 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.000 I did skip that part in the presentation since I went from wanting to be a vet, 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:12.000 then a marine biologist. So Seychelles Island have a system of how they 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:20.000 give scholarships. And it's based on what the country needs. And when I 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:26.000 was about to go to university, we didn't have universities in Seychelles, at the time that I 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:31.000 was going to university. To get a scholarship first you have to get the scores required. 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:37.000 And then you have to chose a career that's related to something the country needs. 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:44.000 And unfortunately, marine biology was not part of it. Vet was not part of it. 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:51.000 And also there were two high priorities at the time. And going to medical school was 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:56.000 a high priority and going to law school, I believe, was a high priority. 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:61.000 So, I was in a situation where I had the scores I needed. 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:06.000 And it was a priority and there was a scholarship available and I took it. 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:13.000 And I went to medial school. And I think I was the only person in my whole year 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:19.000 that did not, was not there because it was something they had 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.000 dreamt of in the past year or five years. 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:27.000 I had made that decision months before I went to medical school. 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.000 Was it as competitive as it is here? 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.000 I am from a developing country and also from sub saharan Africa. 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:45.000 And from a community where it's not as competitive as it is in the United States. 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:51.000 But also the, the pay is not as high as it is in the United States. 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:57.000 So there are pros and cons to both. It is basically like going to work somewhere 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:63.000 where the pay is much lower than what someone in the US would be used to. 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:08.000 And yet, having to do just as much work. And so, 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:11.000 it's not competitive because for the amount of work that you do 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:16.000 you don't necessarily get the same benefit. So most people don't 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:22.000 want to do medicine and then work there. I hope that changes as we go through. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.000 But I did go through a journey that would be different compared to if I had been here. It was 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:36.000 a scholarship and something that most people were not trying to chose or compete for. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:45.000 I will add that the doctor's salary there if you convert it to US dollars, 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:53.000 is probably close to the minimum wage here. But at the same time, 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:57.000 the environment is different because we don't have the same tax system. 00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:61.000 We don't pay for health, we have socialized medicine which means there's no bill. 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.000 But also the health workers don't get paid that much. 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:13.000 We also have high load of patients. And so I was seeing about 35 patients from 8-noon. 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:20.000 And then I would have one hour off. And then I would have to see the same number, 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:26.000 mass amount of patients until 4, take a quick break to go and continue seeing 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:30.000 them up until 9pm. And not really for a big salary. 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:35.000 So it's a path less traveled, I would say. Yeah. 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:41.000 If I had colleagues that really wanted to go to medical school, but it's competitive 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:45.000 then how would they have done it? I would say and I would go back 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.000 to the passion part. The tip I was talking about doing what you're passionate about. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:57.000 There are times where we have this fixed mindset of what it is that we want to do. 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:64.000 Versus, what it is that we want to be doing, right? So, someone who want to 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.000 go to medical school what it is that they want to do is become a doctor. 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:11.000 But technically, what it is that they want to be doing 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:16.000 is serving the population and maybe even in the health field. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:21.000 And having impact on improving the health of the people around them. 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:30.000 And I would say that the health field is so vast that being a doctor is not only position 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:36.000 in the health field. And so if your passion is still to serve or 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:42.000 to improve the health of the community, there are so many ways to do that. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:49.000 So if you've hit a wall in one journey, there are other ways to still enter that journey. 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:55.000 And I'll give you an example of, I have people I work with right now who started off 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:60.000 outside of public health. They have a degree in public health but they started as OS, 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.000 which means they started at the front desk. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.000 and they're the ones who help screen the clients that come in. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:11.000 They've entered the health field. They're already in now. 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:15.000 And they're getting to serve the clients and interact with other people 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:20.000 that work in the health field. We have recently recruited 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.000 people as disease investigator staff. 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:29.000 As investigation staff who was originally in the health field doing something completely 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:36.000 different, at the front desk, doing billing. So get your foot in the door. I would say. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.000 And one you're in there, you will realize that there are 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:46.000 so many options of getting there. And doing what you're passionate to do. 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:49.000 It's not just the one thing that you were thinking of. 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.000 So I would go back to widen your scope, and be passionate. 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:57.000 And just understand what your passion really is. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:63.000 So the question is to speak a bit about my experience in working in different 00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:07.000 environments with the different cultures. And I would say 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:16.000 I've had a bit of extreme cultures, too. So I come from sub saharan Africa, right? 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:22.000 The region where men are the ones who lead and they're the ones who usually make 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:28.000 the decisions for what happens in the family. I have colleagues from Mali 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:33.000 who is working to get girls in school because girls get married early 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:38.000 and their job is to get married and procreate, right? And it's a big change. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:43.000 I'm also from Seychelles Island who is a matriarchal country, 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:49.000 where we're surround by being part of this developing world, and pushing 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:55.000 for women to do more. But I'm in a culture where the women are the professionals. 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:62.000 And the men are, mostly you'll find men being driver or the IT work. 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.000 And we have families where women are the bread winner and the men 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:11.000 aren't necessarily the bread winner or we have a lot of single moms. 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:15.000 And I remember going to conferences in other countries, 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.000 and other African countries will say it is so weird 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.000 every time I go to a conference, the person from Seychelles is a women. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:28.000 And they struggle to get a women in the door to, you know, 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:32.000 to do this work and to be the professional. As so I was always 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.000 at middle where I am from an area where we're trying 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:41.000 to promote women to be professionals. But I'm also technically from a community 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.000 where the women are the professionals and we have to push men. 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:49.000 I've also switched from being where the women are the professionals, 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:54.000 to being a consultant in countries where if I'm the one speaking up 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:59.000 then it's seen as disrespecting the people there. 00:37:59.000 --> 00:37:64.000 And I'm speaking of opportunities I've had to join WHO group 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:10.000 to help access preparedness and response capacities in all these different countries. 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:17.000 And when we go there as the experts, we all lead certain categories of response. 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:22.000 And so I would have two things that I'm leading and we would have to ask them 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.000 Do you have an actual plan? Have you ever tested your plan? 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:30.000 You say you've tested the plan. Do you have the report to show that you tested that plan? 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:35.000 And if you tested that plan, did you use that to update the original plan? 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.000 And I have to ask questions for us to help score them. 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:45.000 for us to help them find out where their gaps are to make their response better, right? 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:51.000 But here I am, young women, questioning this elderly, experienced man. 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:56.000 And I have made the mistake of thinking that it was okay 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:60.000 to question and was shut down and I had to change the approach. 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.000 Because we still need to answers to get the response we need, right? 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:08.000 So I would go to my colleague and say, can you ask this? 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:12.000 You know, and so that it's always a male colleague whose doing the questioning. 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:16.000 And I would be doing more of the complimenting of the things that 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:19.000 they're doing really well. And so I had to switch a lot of that. 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:24.000 And then I switched to moving to the United States which is a completely different 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:29.000 culture again. I come from socialized medicine world. 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:34.000 And I was practicing public health where prevention and healthcare were 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:40.000 Two different things. To moving to a culture where public health 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.000 is also healthcare and it's about increasing access to healthcare. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:49.000 And not necessarily just prevention. It's, you know, as so I've had 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:53.000 to change the culture of the work, I've also had to change the culture of. 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:57.000 I cannot change myself to accommodate others. 00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:63.000 I'm supposed to be proud that I'm a women. And I should be able to speak up 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.000 without others thinking that I shouldn't because I'm a woman. 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:11.000 I should be firm on how my name is pronounced which is not prounounced 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.000 this way most places. In most places my name is Naomi. 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.000 But I'm from a French-based country, so we say Naomi, 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:23.000 And so I used to say, don't worry about it, I know what you mean. 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:27.000 And now I've have to switch to no, this is how my name is pronounced. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:31.000 And there's all these thrown at you and I guess it's the soft skills again. 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:38.000 Going back to the soft skills and being able to change based on the environment 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:42.000 to get the impact that you need to get. And you have to just keep your focus 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:46.000 oOn what it is, what outcome are you looking for. But it's a lot. 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.000 To keep switching cultures is a lot. 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:58.000 What are some of the challenges and benefits to all the jobs that I've changed? 00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:64.000 I will start by, it does look like I've changed jobs a lot. 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:09.000 But I did work as a physician most of the time and then public health. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:13.000 And then a stay-at-home mom. And this is basically my third job. 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:19.000 So I've not changed a lot but within the field I've changed what it is that I'm doing. 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:24.000 And when I did change, it was a drastic change. So I can speak to some of 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:33.000 the changes. Some of the challenges is I have to be flexible and sort of 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:40.000 be flexible in my approach to a level that I did not think that I would have to be. 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:47.000 And change everything that I believed in. Even my idea of what public health is 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:51.000 had to change a little bit for me to be able to work in public health in one continent 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:56.000 And then go to a completely different continent. One, 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:59.000 you have experience from this other job that nobody else has here 00:41:59.000 --> 00:41:63.000 because you're the only one that's come from something completely different. 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:08.000 So it's really good to change drastically sometimes and be the one that people goes to 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:13.000 for a different idea. You keep getting invited to the table to share that different perspective. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:20.000 It's also this great opportunity to learn a different way of doing things. 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:25.000 And that's, personally, you gain a lot of skills in that. 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.000 And you also build your own resume for having these 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:34.000 Completely different experiences that people might look for. 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:41.000 I've also learned that taking a risk is worth it. 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:44.000 I didn't change from one job to the other. I changed 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:49.000 from having a beautiful career in WHO which was rising, 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:54.000 to quitting my job, leaving my country, and everybody I knew, 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.000 to go to where my husband lived because somebody had to move. 00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:63.000 And I was a stay-at-home, too, which is something I've never done. 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:11.000 So I was their workaholic, workaholic and then quit my job and quit the life I knew. 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:15.000 And then it picks up. There are always opportunities around. And I 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:21.000 always thought what am I going to do now that I can't practice public health anymore? 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.000 But public health is everywhere. Healthcare is everywhere. 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:28.000 And so, you learn that taking risks is worth it. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.000 You will take two steps back to take 10 steps forward. 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:36.000 As long as you don't take those two steps back as it's the end of the world, 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:40.000 Things will pick up. So the question is 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:43.000 Can we take the Myers Briggs personality test online? 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:47.000 It is online. It's one that you really have to be truthful. 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:51.000 I may have forgotten to mention there is no wrong personality at all. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000 The fact that we're different is wonderful. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:60.000 So when you do take the test online, if you do, try and be really truthful 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.000 on what you would do and not you think people think you should do to get a more 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:13.000 accurate personality classification I would say. But yes, you can take it online for free. 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:18.000 So the comment is that you might take Myers Briggs personality test and get a different 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:24.000 answer at different times in you life. Mine has not changed drastically. 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.000 So the answer that pops is the same but I will say that my 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:32.000 percentage of extrovertedness has decreased. 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:39.000 I used to be so happy to just go out and socialize, and meet people and talk, and 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:43.000 gosh, I do like my along time. (laughter) 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:48.000 I've changed, that percentage has gone down. But overall I'm so much more 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.000 extroverted than I am introverted. And so, but yeah, for some people 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:55.000 it does change you might start off extroverted as a teenager 00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:59.000 and then go into the work life and then be more introverted. 00:44:59.000 --> 00:44:64.000 You might be someone who is more sensing, and used your senses 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:08.000 to get information and then you start working with very strong emotions. 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:13.000 And then you start learning to take emotions into account when you make decisions. 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:17.000 So it does change as, as you journey through life. 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:22.000 So WOU has the Center for Professional Pathways that provides the opportunity to 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:28.000 take the Myers Briggs personality test and can help you, too, with what the results mean. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:35.000 applause