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The balance between personal and professional effectiveness
Proactivity versus reactivity
The importance of defining your path in life
Start at the bottom.
You might not see any benefits during the first few years. It’s a hard concept to grasp. Because you also don’t want to waste your time.
- No, you still have to be smart. If you don’t see any results, be hard on yourself. But always be willing to start at the bottom.
- Forget about your ego.
- No one is good enough to do certain things. And at some level, we’re all students.
Just look at all the kids with rich parents who give them everything. Those kids often don’t understand the value of hard work and how hard it is to make a living. There’s no honor in getting a free pass.
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“It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”
PETER DRUCKER
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Keep developing Yourself
There’s nothing more exciting than the rush you get when you get new ideas or when you daydream about the future.
At the same time, when you have no outlook on the future at all, you feel stuck and depressed. Am I right?
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Improve your universal skills
Skills like writing, leadership, personal effectiveness, and persuasion are helpful to all professionals. Whether you are a coder or carpenter, you want to provide value to others. To keep doing that, you need those universal skills.
The earlier you start improving your universa...
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Analyze Yourself
I’ve never met a successful person who did not build a career on their strengths. It simply does not exist.
No one can perform well by doing something they are bad at.
Sure, you can improve your weaknesses. But it’s not an effective strategy....
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Identify an industry that fits your strength
This is a tough one. On one side, I believe that we should pursue a career we are passionate about. But on the other side, I think we should NOT do something we’re bad at.
So what should you do if you love something but suck at it? My opini...
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Work with purpose
“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.”
Life is short. Don’t waste it doing work that you don’t find meaningful.
The rules of a tournament are straightforward
- You must start at the bottom to have a shot at the top.
- You must be willing to work long and hard at substandard wages. In order to advance in the tournament, you must prove yourself not merely above average but spectacular.
- Once you come to the sad realization that you will ...
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