We’d never heard of Cameron Hughes nor Johnny Bunko before this morning. They arrived simultaneously, through a pair of vastly different web publications. Ones a man who attends sporting events, the other is a comic book. But when they came ’round the mountain, they came singing the same song.

Jonny Bunko is a narrative outlining six keys to KILLING it career-wise. Kevin Kelly, the man behind WIRED and one of the smartest people around, recently offered a distillation of the book’s main lessons. His take on them appears in brackets:

There is no plan. [The economy changes too fast for your career to have a plan]
Think strengths, not weaknesses. [Find your advantages]
It’s not about you. [Serving others serves you best]
Persistence trumps talent. [Keep showing up]
Make excellent mistakes. [Take risks, but fail forward]
Leave an imprint. [Do something that matters]

Good advice, right? Amazing advice. Read it again. It feels good. He goes so far as to say that, while this book best serves those just setting off on their career paths, he consistently recommends it to friends that are “treading water,” and rereads the book himself once every few years.

And where does Cameron come in? He’s sort of the unlikely mascot of these lessons, pulling down $2,000 to attend major sporting events and rally the local crowds. He’s a shouter, a carouser, he makes a lot of friends and keeps everyone in the game. To say that he had planned on dominating the professional screamer market in early 2008 would be absurd. There is now way to plan for that sort of thing.

What you can and should plan on is doing what you do best. Embrace your talents. Leave a mark. Let’s see what happens.