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Learn by Doing
Any entrepreneur (and any expert on cognition / learning) will tell you that practical knowledge is best developed by doing, not just thinking or planning.
For careers, too, you don’t know what the best plan is until you try.
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Prioritize Learning
A person with a foundation of knowledge and skills will make more money and most likely live a more meaningful life.
There’s a similar belief in start-ups: technology companies focus on learning over profitability in the early years to maximize revenue in the later years.
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Think Two Steps Ahead
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find a predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
At the same time, though, don’t do the opposite and think ahead too far in the future. You will change, the world will chan...
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Make Reversible, Small Bets
Occasional missteps are to be expected when you take an experimental approach to career planning.
These errors needn’t be permanent. Good Plan A’s can be stopped or reversed or morphed into a Plan B. A good Plan A minimizes the cost of failure.
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Leverage Your Competitive Advantage
Career plans should leverage your assets, set you in direction of your aspirations, and account for the market realities.
- Articulate educated hypotheses about each. “I believe I am skilled at X, I believe I want to do Y, I believe the market needs Z.”
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3. Learn by Doing
Most of our learning for anything starts when we practically apply what we know. This way we grow in understanding and are able to teach others.
So, do your best to invest time in building new habits to put to practice what you have learned.
Tips On How To Straighten Your Life
- Stop doing what you know to be wrong. Today. Don’t waste time questioning how you know that what you’re doing is wrong, if you are certain that it is.
- Don’t try to reorganize the state until you have ordered your own experience.
Over-communicate
Assume that people don’t know what you’re thinking. And you’ll find the more you communicate with others, the more they will reciprocate.
Ask questions, tell the team what you’re doing, be responsive, and get over that you think you’re bugging them too much. The more you co...
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