Why you should network outside of your field | Evan Green & Luke Jeffrey | TEDxMarshallU

Have you ever heard of interdisciplinary networking? In this comedic, yet highly informative talk, you will discover that it can be a real career superpower! Luke Jeffrey and Evan Green explain what interdisciplinary networking is, share their personal benefits from implementing it as student employees, and convey its importance for leveling up your diversity of knowledge and connections to successfully solve human-centered problems in the workplace.
Evan Green is a Yeager Scholar majoring in journalism and psychology at Marshall University. He serves as The Parthenon’s (MU student newspaper) executive editor and is a member of the Society of Yeager Scholars and the Board of Scholars at Marshall University. Green has been a freelance reporter for several news publications over the last five years, including Scioto County Daily News, The Portsmouth Daily Times, and the Shawnee State Chronicle. He also served as the Field Director for Dr. Sydnee McElroy’s House of Delegates campaign and worked as a summer fellow for the West Virginia Working Families Party. Green is also a member of the Brad D. Smith Student Incubator, where he has launched the start-up company Break Free, a non-profit focused on providing free feminine hygiene products on Marshall’s campus.
Luke Jeffrey is a junior and Yeager Scholar majoring in accounting at Marshall University. As an Innovation Intern for Marshall’s iCenter, Social Media Manager for The Parthenon, and Founder and Chair of the Society of Yeager Scholars’ Board of Scholars, Luke actively commits to innovative contributions wherever possible. In the future, he hopes to take this same passion to law school and beyond, helping businesses shape the future and improve people’s lives. In his free time, Luke enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time with animals. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@itsapittie]

Networking outside your field can open your eyes to other possibilities and even keep you from making significant mistakes. Two examples: I watched a documentary about ancient Egypt in which the Egyptologist displayed a stone mace head about the size of a baseball and stated that it was probably ceremonial because it wasn't big enough to be effective as a weapon. Anyone who has extensively studied weapons will know that almost all mace-like weapons around the world have heads about the size of a baseball. A larger mace becomes heavy and too unwieldy to swing quickly. You have to strike a balance between force of impact and speed of delivery. On another occasion, a historian talking about the domestication of horses stated that horses wouldn't have been of much use in warfare until the invention of the chariot because without stirrups, the horse doesn't make a very good fighting platform. Scythian horse archers and Sassanid cataphracts would beg to differ. Both of these errors could have been avoided simply by consulting an expert in military history before coming to the final conclusion. I'm sure similar mistakes occur in other fields in which I'm not an expert.

[@Care408]

Love this! So much fun and engaging ❤

[@kIA7]

All people are our human resources, no matter who or where they are, and we must keep them all due to we are dealing with a variety of scenarios, thus there is a form of network that I call adaptable networking. At the end, the network is the key to success.

[@RuFiOhYT]

Good talk, thanks!

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You never know what you're good at until you really try all the fields out there

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But since you can't try them all, try to meet people of all fields!

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I have hands on experience in BPO/call centers and worked in flea market as well, if anybody wants know more about these fields, you may contact me. Sometimes in technical troubleshooting as well.

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