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How To Identify the Right Opportunities to Grow Yourself
A Meaningless Life
We all are educated and brought up to eventually fight over conventional roles and definitions in our work and home life.
This competition to grab our share of the limited resources in this world is making life an endless pursuit to nowhere.
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The Concept of Opportunity
- We all want to have great opportunities and think that they will come to us in a planned, direct and transparent way.
- There exist countless opportunities in this world, but they have to be sought, discovered, and uncovered.
As an increasing number of people are competing for the same resources, new opportunities are to be searched, like a treasure hunt.
A Meaningless Life
We all are educated and brought up to eventually fight over conventional roles and definitions in our work and home life.
This competition to grab our share of the limited resources in this world is making life an endless pursuit to nowhere.
Change in Perspective
People who are into new kinds of opportunities are more engaged and dedicated to their work, leading to a better rate of success.
New and unexplored opportunities can be discovered by changing our perspective.
Our Work Matters
Finding new opportunities lies in our working style:
- Having a positive, connecting and humble attitude.
- Helping people declutter tasks, easing out any conflicts, and clearing obstacles.
- Doing hard work, yet remaining humble.
- Making seniors notice you by your work, not your words.
- Becoming a proactive person who gets things done.
- Staying a learner.
Helping Others
Find new opportunities in your workplace by:
- Coming up with new ideas and sharing them with management.
- Introducing and connecting people.
- Finding inefficiencies in systems and ways to rectify them.
- Working and giving away your ideas selflessly.
- Volunteering to do things that others don't or can't do.
Tough Advice
Tough things you may have to do to find new opportunities:
- You have to be ok with others stealing your credit.
- Start considering any mistake as an opportunity.
- Not to be a sycophant.
- Not to feel demeaned by your work, and adding creativity to whatever your job is.
- Get out of your comfort zone permanently.
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Deciding where to work
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- If you want to join a local co-working space but are intimidated by the price point, ask about smaller memberships to start.
Prioritizing tasks
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Deep work vs. Shallow work
- Deep work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. Creates value.
- Shallow work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. Doesn't create value.
4 philosophies to integrate Deep Work into your life
- Monastic: maximize Deep Work by minimizing or removing shallow obligations. Isolate yourself for long periods of time without distractions; no shallow work allowed
- Bimodal: divide your time into some clearly defined stretches to deep pursuits and leave the rest open to everything else. Reserve a few consecutive days when you will be working like a monastic. You need at least one day a week
- Rhythmic: involves creating a routine where you define a specific time period — ideally three to four hours every day — that you can devote to Deep Work
- Journalistic: alternate your day between deep and shallow work as it fits your blocks of time. Not recommended to try out first.
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