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The career landscape: broad vs. specific
- Broad landscape. The landscape today is made up of thousands of options and the way things work today, if there’s an option you want that’s not already out there, you can probably create it for yourself.
- Specific Career Path. A career path is like a game board. The conventional wisdom bookshelf contains instruction booklets for only a small fraction of today’s available game boards—and those that it does have usually tell you how that game was played in the past, even though the current game board has evolved significantly into something with new kinds of opportunities and different rules and loopholes.
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The real career landscape
If you can figure out how to get a reasonably accurate picture of the real career landscape out there, you have a massive edge over everyone else, most of whom will be using outdated conventional wisdom as their instruction booklet.
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Uncovering your real career related wants.
- Play the Why Game: Why is this something I want?
- Look at your Denial Prison: Uncovering your authentic wants that are repressed.
- Priority Rankings: Almost as important as the wants themselves is the priority they’re given.
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Plot your career path
After considering
- The general landscape
- Specific careers
- Where your Starting point is (based on your current skills, resources, and connections relevant to that field)
- Your Success point/End point
- Your estimate of your pace of improvement
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The career pitfall
Careers used to be kind of like a 40-year tunnel. You picked your tunnel, and once you were in, that was that. You worked in that profession for 40 years or so before the tunnel spit you out on the other side into your retirement.
Today’s career landscape isn’t a l...
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Understanding your potential
When assessing your chances on a certain career path, the key question is: With enough time, could you get good enough at this game to potentially reach whatever your definition of success is in that career?
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The simple career framework
- List careers you want/find desirable.
- List all careers that are realistic to potentially achieve.
- Find the overlapping areas between what is desirable, and what is possible.
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5 conflicting yearnings that influence the career you want
- Personal. The human need for fulfilment.
- Social. Diverse social desires that want to be relevant, important, widely known, accepted, well-liked and agreeable.
- Lifestyle. The desire to have a stress-free life.
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Why career-path-carving is important
- Time. A typical career will take up somewhere between 20% and 60% of your meaningful adult time.
- Quality of Life. Your career has a major effect on all your non-career hours.
- Impact. Whatever shape your career path ends up...
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