내부 업무의 혁신적 힘

### 로버트 그린: 자신을 변화시키는 엄청나게 간단한 열쇠
* 📚 첫 번째 저서인 '48가지 힘의 법칙'을 출간한 후 로버트 그린은 **커리어와 삶의 변화에 대한 조언을 구하는 100명이 넘는 사람들**과 상담하기 시작했습니다.
* 🔄 그린은 사람들이 특정 문제에 대한 조언을 구하는 경우가 많지만 궁극적으로는 **자신의 커리어와 삶에 실질적인 변화**를 원한다는 사실을 관찰했습니다.
* 🎯 그린은 어려움을 겪던 작가에서 **하룻밤 사이에 베스트셀러 작가**가 된 자신의 변화된 여정을 공유했습니다.
* 🧠 자신을 변화시키는 핵심은 **지식 축적, 기술 개발, 업무 습관 등 눈에 보이지 않는 내부적인 측면**에 집중하는 것입니다.
* 🔍 그린은 어린 시절 강렬한 호기심을 불러일으켰던 원초적인 성향과 활동을 되돌아보며 **개인 성장의 방향**을 결정할 것을 제안합니다.
* 🕰 그린에 따르면, 내부에서 주도하는 이러한 프로세스를 따르고 기술을 축적하면 **기회를 활용할 준비가 된 시점**에 도달할 수 있습니다.
* 🏆 일을 통해 자신을 변화시키자는 그린의 제안은 급진적인 것으로 여겨지지만, 그는 이것이 **진정한 자아와 연결되고 문화에 의미 있게 기여할 수 있는 진정성 있고 지속적인 방법**이라고 믿습니다.

로버트 그린의 개인적인 여정은 지속적인 변화와 성공의 열쇠로 일을 통한 내적 변화를 강조합니다.

Transcriber: Marta Palacio
Reviewer: Denise RQ. After the publication of my first book, The 48 Laws of Power, I began to receive requests for advice from people in every conceivable profession and at every level of experience. Over the years, I have now personally consulted with over 100 different people. In so many of the cases, the following scenario would play itself out. They would come to me with a specific problem, a boss from hell, a business relationship that had turned ugly, a promotion that never came. I would slowly direct their attention away from the boss and the job, and instead get them to search inside themselves and try to find the emotional root of their discontent. Often, as we talked it out, they would realize that at their core, they felt deeply frustrated - their creativity was not being realized, their careers had somehow taken a wrong turn - what they actually wanted was something larger; a real and substantial change in their careers and in their lives.

It would be at this point that I would
tell them a story about myself, about my own peculiar path
to change and transformation from a highly unsuccessful writer, eking out an existence in a small,
one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, to best-selling author seemingly overnight. I have never publicly related
this story before, but for this special occasion,
my first TEDx talk, I thought I would share it with you because it's actually very relevant
to the subject of change. The story goes like this: I had known since an early age
that I wanted to become a writer. I just couldn't figure out
what I wanted to write. Perhaps it was novels,
or essays, or plays. After university, I drifted
into journalism as a way to, at least,
make a living while writing. Then one day, after several years
of working as a writer and editor, I was having lunch with a man who had just edited an article
I had written for a magazine.

After downing his third martini,
this editor, an older man, finally admitted to me
why he had asked me to lunch. You should seriously consider
a different career, he told me. You are not writer material. Your work is too undisciplined,
your style is too bizarre, your ideas are just not relatable
to the average reader. Go to law school, Robert.
Go to business school. Spare yourself the pain. At first, these words were
like a punch in the stomach, but in the months to come,
I realized something about myself. I had entered a career
that just didn't really suit me, mostly as a way to make a living, and my work reflected
this incompatibility. I had to get out of journalism. This realization initiated
a period of wandering in my life. I traveled all across Europe.
I worked every conceivable job. I did construction work in Greece,
taught English in Barcelona, worked as a hotel receptionist in Paris,
a tour guide in Dublin.

served as a trainee
for an English company, making television documentaries,
living not far from here in Brixton. During all of this time, I wrote several novels
that never made it past 100 pages, and dozens of essays that I would tear up,
and plays that never got produced. I wandered back to Los Angeles,
California, where I was born and raised. I worked in a detective agency,
among other odd jobs. I entered the film business,
working as an assistant to a director, as a researcher, story developer,
and screenwriter. In these long years of wandering,
I had totaled over 50 different jobs. By the year 1995, my parents
- God bless them! - were beginning to get seriously worried about me. I was 36 years old, and I seemed lost
and unable to settle into anything. I too had moments of doubt,
but I did not feel lost. I was searching and exploring,
I was hungry for experiences.

and I was continuously writing. That same year, while in Italy
for yet another job, I met a man there, named Joost Elffers,
a packager and producer of books. One day, while we were walking
along the quays of Venice, Joost asked me if I had
any ideas for a book. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere,
an idea just gushed out of me. It was about power. I told Joost that I was constantly
reading books on history, and the stories that I read about Julius Caesar,
the Borgias, and Louis XIV, were the exact same stories that I had personally witnessed
with my own eyes in all of my different jobs,
only less bloody. (Laughter) People want power, and they want to disguise
this wanting of power so they play games. They covertly manipulate and intrigue, all the while presenting
a nice, even saintly, front. I would expose these games. I gave him numerous examples
of what I meant.

and he became increasingly excited. He said I should write a treatment,
and if it was good enough, he would pay me to live
while I wrote half the book. Enough to sell it to a publisher. Suddenly, in writing what would become
The 48 Laws of Power, everything in my disjointed past
seemed to click into place, like magic, like destiny. All of those various writing experiences - the journalism, the television,
the theater, the film - had given me the skills to tell stories
and organize my thoughts. All of that reading of history
had given me a vast storehouse of ideas that I could draw upon, and my work as a researcher had taught me
how to find the perfect anecdote. Even those different, seemingly
random jobs had exposed me to every type of psychology and to the dark corners of human psyche. Even the languages I learned
while traveling taught me patience and discipline. All of these experiences added up
to rich layers of knowledge and practice.

that altered me from the inside out. In my own very weird and intuitive way, I had given myself the perfect education for the writing
of The 48 Laws of Power. The book came out in 1998,
and it was a success. The course of my life was forever altered. The moral of this story, as I told the people
who would come to me for advice, and as I'm telling you now, is the following: We humans tend to fixate
on what we can see with our eyes. It is the most animal part of our nature. When we look at the changes
and transformations in other people's lives, we see the good luck that someone had
in meeting a person like Joost, with all of the right connections
and the funding. We see the book or the project
that brings the money and the attention. In other words, we see the visible signs
of opportunity and success. Change in our own lives,

but we are grasping at an illusion. What really allows
for such dramatic changes are the things that occur
on the inside of a person and are completely invisible: the slow accumulation
of knowledge and skills, the incremental improvements
in work habits, and the ability to withstand criticism. Any change in people's fortune
is merely the visible manifestation of all of that deep preparation over time. By essentially ignoring
this internal, invisible aspect, we fail to change anything
fundamental within ourselves. And so, in a few years' time,
we reach our limits yet again, we grow frustrated, we crave change, we grab at something
quick and superficial, and we remain prisoners forever
of these recurring patterns in our lives. The answer, the key to the ability
to transform ourselves is actually insanely simple:
to reverse this perspective. Stop fixating on what other people
are saying and doing; on the money, the connections,
the outward appearance of things. Instead, look inward,

focus on the smaller internal changes that lay the groundwork
for a much larger change in fortune. It is the difference between grasping at an illusion
and immersing yourself in reality. Reality is what will liberate
and transform you. Here's how this would work
in your own life. Consider the fact that each and every one of you
is fundamentally unique - one of a kind; your DNA, the particular configuration
of your brain, your life experiences. In early childhood, this uniqueness
manifested itself by the fact that you felt particularly drawn
to certain subjects and activities - what I call in my book 'mastery,'
primal inclinations. You cannot rationally explain
why you felt so drawn to words, or to music, or to particular questions
about the world around you, or to social dynamics. As you get older, you often lose contact
with these inclinations. You listen to parents who urge you
to follow a particular career path.

You listen to teachers
and alcoholic magazine editors, who tell you what you're good and bad at. You listen to friends, who tell you
what's cool and not cool. At a certain point, you can almost
become a stranger to yourself, and so you enter career paths that are not suited to you
emotionally and intellectually. Your life's task, as I call it, is to return to those inclinations
and to that uniqueness that marked each
and every one of you at birth. At whatever age you find yourself, you must reflect back
upon those earliest inclinations. You must look at those subjects
in the present that continued to spark
that childlike intense curiosity in you. You must look
at those subjects and activities that you've been forced to do
over the past few years that repel you, that have
no emotional resonance. Based on these reflections, you determine a direction
you must take: writing, or music, or a particular branch of science,
or a form of business, or public service.

You now have a loose overall framework,
which you can explore and find those angles and positions
that suit you best. You listen closely to yourself,
to your internal radar. Some parts of that framework
- for me, journalism, and Hollywood - do not feel right. So you move on, slowly narrowing your path,
all the while accumulating skills. Most people want simple,
direct, straight-line paths to the perfect position and to success, but instead, you must welcome
wrong turns and mistakes. They make you aware of your flaws; they widen your experiences;
they toughen you up. If you come to this process
at a later age, you must cultivate a new set of skills that suit this change in direction
you'll be taking and find a way to blend them
with your previous skills. Nothing in this process is ever wasted. In any event, the gold that you are after is learning and the acquisition
of skills, not a fat paycheck. Look at what happens to you.

as you adopt this very different,
internally-driven mindset. Because you are headed in a direction that resonates with you
emotionally and personally, the hours of practice and study
do not seem so burdensome. You can sustain your attention
and your interest for much longer periods of time. What excites you
is the learning process itself, overcoming obstacles,
increasing your skill level. You are immersed in the present instead of constantly
obsessing over the future, and so, you pay greater attention to the work itself
and to the people around you, developing patience
and social intelligence. Without forcing the issue, a point is reached in which you are
thoroughly prepared from within. The slightest opportunity
that comes your way, you will now exploit. In fact, you will draw
opportunities to you because people will sense
how prepared you are, which is, I believe,
what happened to me with Joost. Some of this might sound a bit mystical.

but the results of this process,
that I'm talking about, have been corroborated
by recent scientific research. Most notably, the 1995 study
by Anders Ericsson that yielded the very famous
10,000-hour rule. In tracking people
who had devoted years of their lives to learning chess or music, Ericsson discovered that somewhere near that magical mark
of 10,000 hours of practice, the minds of these people suddenly
became much more creative and fluid. The structures of their brains
had been altered by all of those hours of practice, and at that 10,000-hour mark, we could see a visible transformation
in their performance and creativity. That is a level you will reach
naturally and organically if you follow this process far enough. Finally, what I'm proposing
to you right now is actually, I think, rather radical, namely, the way to transform yourself
is through your work. I know this runs counter
to our prevailing cultural prejudices;

work is too ugly, too boring, too banal. Self-transformation, we think, comes through
a spiritual journey, therapy, a guru who tells us what to do, intense group experiences,
social experiences, and drugs. But most of these are ways of running away from ourselves
and relieving our chronic boredom. They're not connected to process,
so any changes that occur don't last. Instead, through our work,
we can actually connect to who we are, instead of running away. By entering that slow, organic process, we can actually change ourselves
from the inside out in a way that's
very real and very lasting. This process involves
a journey of self-discovery that can be seen
as quite spiritual if you like. In the end of this process, we contribute something unique
and meaningful to our culture through our work, which is hardly ugly, boring, or banal. Thank you very much. (Applause)

The key to transforming yourself -- Robert Greene at TEDxBrixton

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TEDx Talks

'48가지 힘의 법칙'의 성공 이후, 저자는 100명이 넘는 사람들과 직접 상담을 진행하며 그들이 깊은 좌절감과 실질적인 커리어와 삶의 변화의 필요성을 깨닫도록 도왔습니다.

그 자신도 저널리스트로서의 커리어가 자신의 적성에 맞지 않다는 것을 깨닫고 방황하며 다양한 직업을 시도하는 변화의 시기를 거쳤습니다.

이 개인적인 경력 전환의 이야기는 저자가 첫 번째 TEDx 강연에서 공유한 변화라는 주제와 관련이 있습니다.

"48가지 힘의 법칙"을 집필하기까지의 변화의 여정

목표 없는 커리어는 이탈리아에서 도서 제작자와의 만남으로 이어져 권력과 조작에 관한 책에 대한 아이디어를 촉발시켰습니다.

저자의 다양한 업무 경험과 방대한 역사적 지식은 '권력의 48가지 법칙'의 집필로 정점을 찍으며, 과거의 모든 노력을 응집력 있고 영향력 있는 작품으로 묶어냈습니다.

우리가 다른 사람들에게서 보는 성공과 기회는 내면의 준비가 더 깊어졌다는 가시적인 신호일 뿐입니다.

지식, 기술, 업무 습관 등 눈에 보이지 않는 내면의 변화에 집중함으로써 우리는 진정으로 삶을 변화시킬 수 있습니다.

외형적인 모습에 집착하는 대신 자신의 고유성과 원초적인 성향을 포용하여 변화의 능력을 발휘해야 합니다.

인생의 진정한 길을 받아들이기

다른 사람의 의견에 귀를 기울이다 보면 자신의 진정한 성향과 독창성에서 멀어질 수 있습니다.

올바른 커리어 경로를 결정하기 위해서는 자신의 초기 관심사와 현재의 호기심을 되돌아보는 것이 중요합니다.

큰 연봉보다는 내면의 열정과 학습을 통해 기술을 쌓는 여정을 받아들이면 지속적인 관심과 인내심을 갖고 궁극적으로 기회를 잡을 수 있습니다.

1995년 앤더스 에릭슨의 연구를 비롯한 광범위한 연구는 최고의 업무 성과와 창의성을 달성하기 위한 유명한 10,000시간 법칙을 뒷받침합니다.

일반적인 믿음과는 달리, 자기 변화의 과정은 영적 또는 외부적 경험보다는 일을 통해 일어나는 것으로 제안됩니다.

느리고 유기적인 업무 프로세스에 참여하는 것은 자신과 진정으로 연결되는 수단으로 제시되어 실질적이고 지속적인 개인적 변화로 이어집니다.