"E tudo que eu amar, vai encontrar de alguma forma, os vestigios desse perfume de Deus."....Ana Jacomo. A vida. Ora, era obvio.Minha vida precisava de mim.Ela estava passado por um momento dificil e eunao estava prestando atencao suficiente nela.Tinha tirado os olhos da bola, me ocupei com outras coisas:vida de amigos, questoes de trabalho, meu carro se deteriorando e sempre quebrado, esse tipo de coisa.Havia completa e totalmente ignorado minha vida.E agora ela tinha escrito para mim, me convocando, e havia apenas uma coisa a fazer.Tinha que me encontrar com ela, cara a cara.... .Cecelia Ahern Connect to Human Networks To Find Breakout OpportunitiesEarlier this month, I wrote that breakout opportunities are what transform your career. Opportunities do not float like clouds. They are firmly attached to individuals. If youre looking for an opportunity, youre really looking for people. If youre evaluating an opportunity, youre really evaluating people. If youre trying to marshal resources to go after an opportunity, youre really trying to enlist the support and involvement of other people. A company doesnt offer you a job, people do. Opportunities flow through congregations of people. Those with good ideas and information tend to hang out with one another. You will get ahead if you can tap the circles that dish the best opportunities. In fact, its how people have gotten ahead for centuries.Roll the clock back more than two hundred years. In 1765 Joseph Priestley, a young amateur scientist and minister, was running experiments in his makeshift laboratory in the English countryside. He was exceptionally bright but isolated from any peers, until one December day when he traveled into London to attend the Club of Honest Whigs. The brainchild of Benjamin Franklin, the club was like an eighteenth-century version of the networking groups that exist today. Franklin, who was in England promoting the interests of the American colonies, convened his big-thinking friends at the London Coffee House on alternating Thursdays. Their conversations on science, theology, politics, and other topics of the day were freewheeling and reflected the coffeehouse setting. Priestley attended to get feedback on a book idea about scientists progress on understanding electricity. He got much more than feedback. Franklin and his friends swelled in support of Priestley: they offered to open their private scientific libraries to him. They offered to review drafts of his manuscript. They offered their friendship and encouragement. Crucially, Priestley reciprocated all the way: he was committed to circulating his ideas and discoveries through his social network, thereby strengthening the interpersonal bonds, refining the ideas themselves, and increasing the likelihood that his new connections would help him exploit whatever opportunities were found. In short, Priestleys night at the coffeehouse dramatically altered the trajectory of his career. According to author Steven Johnson in his book The Invention of Air, Priestley went from semi-isolation to plugging into an existing network of relationships and collaborations that the coffeehouse environment facilitated. He went on to have an illustrious scientific and writing career, famously discovering the existence of oxygen. The London Coffee House went on to become a central hub of