Hey this is Leo for actualized.org and today I want to do a little video blog about

the importance of inner game towards developing your career.

If you are one of those individuals that happens to really care about their career and is developing their career,

especially if your career is skill-based and is something that you're approaching as a long-term addition to your life where you're

really developing and you're striving towards a great position career-wise over the

long run and you know that it's going to take you years, maybe even decades, to develop that kind of status and prestige that you need to be at the top of your field, whatever it is you do, whether you're a designer, an artist, a programmer, an engineer, you know,

if you're doing marketing or public relations or you're in politics, whatever it is, if you're

really building your career and that's something

that's important to you then I think inner game is really critical and the way I

want to talk about this is talking about my career and how I approach career

development for myself because I really ran into some real issues,

inner game issues that I think tanked my first career.

So you may or may not know but what I wanted to be since I was a

kid was I wanted to be a video game designer and that was kind of my dream job and

my dream career and so I really worked pretty hard at it.

Since I was like seven years old, I started studying that industry,

analyzing games, really playing them,

playing them, thinking about them,

thinking about how to create games that would sell well,

that would resonate with the market, that kind of stuff.

And I was building up a skill set.

So becoming a game designer was actually an interesting career choice because it's

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