Getting Meta-Knowledge
You can get meta-knowledge by doing good research. This kind of research comes from the interactions with other people and rarely from school or books.
Talking to people who are ahead of you in your career and comparing them to people who aren’t is often a very successful strategy to isolate which skills and assets you need to develop.
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