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I\u2019m \nposting from Kunming, in Yunnan province, where I just presented an \ninvited lecture (career management in a global environment) to students \nand faculty on the campus of&nbsp; Kunming University of Science and \nTechnology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The framework for the activities was <\/strong><em><strong>Happenstance Learning Theory<\/strong><\/em><em> (Krumboltz, 2009) <\/em>so we focused on the five skills of&nbsp; <em>curiosity, risk-taking, persistence, flexibility, <\/em>and <em>optimism. Planned Happenstance<\/em><em> (PH)<\/em>, or the increased probability of controlling one\u2019s own <em>fate<\/em>,\n was an instant hit with the Chinese audience. The participants in the \naudience were already familiar with networking because China basically \nruns on <em>Guan Xi (<\/em>literally, quality connections).&nbsp; One might also claim that the Chinese are quite <em>naturally\n persistent. However as a culture the Han Chinese and the&nbsp; \nCommunist Party traditionally have been equally resistant <\/em>to the \nother four PH skills.&nbsp; I found (during my dissertation research and\n five plus years of teaching\/training in China) that a majority of \nChinese are guided by an extreme external <em>Locus of Control (Rotter, 1968). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>During discussions<\/strong>, one young man stated, \u201cChina has\n too many people and too few jobs\u201d and then asked me, \u201cif you can give \nus advice about one thing we should do, what is that?\u201d  I answered \nwithout hesitation, \u201c<em>over deliver; do more than anyone expects of you\u201d<\/em>\n l asked him to forget about his passions for now and make whatever he \ndoes meaningful, by being the best. I continued by saying that I \nbelieved that was the most important thing to do but it wasn\u2019t enough. \nWe need to strengthen our personal learning and development networks. We\n need to prune the ineffective and\/or negative connections and cultivate\n the positive connections. The best way to do that is by volunteering \nyour time and energy to your community; make your elders happy by \nvisiting retirement homes. Make orphans happy by visiting, and then do \nfundraising activities to buy the kids stuff. Volunteer to teach in \n(rural or poor) areas without schools. Become the most positive \nnetworker anybody knows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The young man responded<\/strong> that I was asking them to really think outside the box more than he had imagined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without really thinking I said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m saying we don\u2019t need the boxes. 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