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Pursuing Unrelated Interests Can Help Lawyers 'Connect the Dots' in Legal Careers, Too.

By Bruce Carton

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Over at the In-House Counsel blog, Melanie Hatton writes about a recent interview she gave on Twitter (yes, such a thing exists) in which she was asked what advice she had for people just now going off to law school. Her response was not the typical wisdom passed on to law students, but rather the following: Find an entirely unrelated interest too. That & your legal wisdom will connect in future & make you stand out in the crowd. In her blog post yesterday, Hatton elaborated on that "tweet" of advice and what inspired it. In a 2005 speech at Stanford University graduation ceremony, she says, Apple's Steve Jobs told the new graduates that "you can't join the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." Hatton says that Jobs explained that this had played out in his own life beginning when he was in college, and he dropped out of a course he was supposed to take in order to take a calligraphy course that was seemingly irrelevant to his life. Jobs said that ten years later, however, when he was designing the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).