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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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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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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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How to get Meta-Knowledge
The main route to meta-knowledge is by doing research. And it involves studying people, more than books or in a particular school.
But avoid simply asking people for advice. When you ask for advice, you’ll often get vague, unhelpful answers. Instead, you need to observe what the peop...
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.
- Professional networking groups can...
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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