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Your work is your reward
A big mistake many people make in their careers is to treat work as a means to an end, be it money, power, or prestige.
When a career is just a means to an end, the payoff will be unsatisfying. With the right goals - earning your success and serving others - you can make the work itself your reward.
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A career doesn’t have to be a straight line
There are four basic career patterns:
- Linear careers, which climb steadily upward, such as the "corporate ladder" or the billionaire entrepreneur.
- Steady-state careers involve staying at one job and growing in expertise.
- Tra...
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Beware of unhealthy passions
- An unhealthy passion is an obsessive passion, characterised by intense interest, negative mood and low concentration during the activity, and unhappiness when not engaged in the activity.
- Conversely, a healthy passion, also called "harmonious passi...
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Choose an interesting career over a fun career
There are two basic types of speeches from commencement speakers: One is to “Go find your purpose.” The other is “Find work you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Scholars refer to two kinds of happiness as hedonic and euda...
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Choose Your Reward
If you are trying to lose weight and reward yourself with a pizza every time you complete a milestone, the hard work is likely to be undone soon. Achievement of goals is not an incentive for indulgence.
The Issues With Running Startups
- Your competitors decide how hard you work. And that’s often as hard as you possibly can.
- Payoff is only on average proportionate to your productivity. You might end up earning as much or less than you would in a big company if the endeavor fails, and failures are common...
Creating your career
Most people never make a conscious decision about their careers and end up at a certain place, due to external factors and present opportunities. Their career path wasn't carved out or planned.
Creating your career is something that most people don't think of at an early stage when they are...
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