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Don't Ask People For Advice

When you ask for advice, you’ll often get vague, unhelpful answers.

Try instead observing what the top performers in your field are actually doing differently, to learn what really matters to move forward.

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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 success...

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Doing Well In Your Career

Doing Well In Your Career

It requires two important factors:

  • The ability to do your work well. This requires knowledge.
  • Meta-knowledge. Meta-knowledge is knowledge not on how to do your job, but knowledge about how your career works. That means you ...

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How to get Meta-Knowledge

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Ask for career advice

Asking for advice from knowledgeable sources is possibly the best way to form a career plan

  • Rely on the advice of people who have done it before. This could be someone internal in your organization or someone outside of it. 
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Ask For What You Want

Ask For What You Want

Develop the habit of asking for what you want.  How else are you going to get it?  It is really that simple.  Often, when I ask, I am amazed at how quickly I get exactly what I wanted.  Just give this one a try.  If you are a parent, teach your children to ask others for what they want.  This is ...

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