On resilience: Everything that’s gone wrong in my career… so far
Psembi Kinstan, the group executive creative director for DDB Group Melbourne, was recently asked to share some insights about resilience. What he arrived at was a laundry list of the good and the bad of his career.
I was recently asked to do a talk to a group of a few hundred ad people at the Four A’s Festival on the topic of resilience in your career. Problem is, resilience implies a hard slog through unhappy and trying conditions, and I bloody love my job, and nearly always have.
So, what insights could I possibly share about resilience?
I started with a quick flick back through the mental runsheet of my career to date. To my own surprise I realised, ‘oh bollocks, it’s all gone wrong’. Far from being the perfectly positive and manicured timeline my LinkedIn makes it out to be, just beneath the surface it’s been a complete fucking shitshow.
