Julie Kientz & Shwetak Patel - Using All Four Burners: How to Find Professional and Personal Success
A session from Dent 2015 - http://dentthefuture.com/panels/112
with Shwetak Patel and Julie Kientz
Author David Sedaris coined the "Four Burners" theory: in his analysis, a four-burner oven represents your family, your friends, your health, and your work. To be successful in any one arena you have to “shut off a burner”, and to be really successful you have to shut off two.
Is this true? Or can smart optimization of time and obligations allow for success in 3 or 4 arenas? In this unique fireside chat, Dr. Julie Kientz and Dr. Shwetak Patel, both independently selected for MIT's Innovators under 35 in separate fields of work, will both join us on stage as a pair of married professionals, to share their tips and strategies for time management, seeking and evaluating opportunities, and how their experience as professors has helped them navigate entrepreneurial waters.