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If You Want Uncommon Clarity, Ask Yourself Uncommonly Specific Questions
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Being successful requires you to say no to the wrong things - the wrong money, wrong relationships, and wrong life choices. The wrong choices will make you unhappy and unfulfilled.
Wrong money is abundant. It is the money earned doing tasks that are irrelevant to your Big Goals. It is the money that leads you to mediocrity.
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"Do what you love”...
... is career advice that’s easy to give, but hard to follow, because we can’t always accurately predict what kind of job we’ll love until we’re actually doing it. Or maybe ...
Questions to help you choose the right career
- What can I do better than others? Think about what you're really good at, and how you could use the skills where you have an edge in order to get results.
- What problems do I want to solve? This question is productive because it helps you identify your values and the issues you care about, without confining you to a narrow role.
- How do I want to be known? What you do for a living often informs other people’s impressions of you—as well as your own self-image. For example, if you want people to think you’re a helpful, trustworthy, caring person, you might want to consider a job in a classic “helping” field, like being a kindergarten teacher.
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“The hard choices—what we most fear doing, asking, saying—these are very often exactly what we most need to do.”
Tim Ferriss
What's Holding You Down
Some people allow fears to keep them stuck in their situations. Fear has the ability to keep you stuck and control your mindset.
You can silence it by stating this fear out loud and becoming familiar with the worst-case scenario.
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Why most people end on the path to mediocrity
- They are not willing to fail;
- They don't see value in learning and self-education;
- They don’t think they have what it takes ...
