- Compound yourself
You don’t want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have been doing it for twenty—your rate of learning should always be high.
- Self-belief
As you get more data points that your judgment is good and you can consistently deliver results, trust yourself more.
Self-belief must be balanced with self-awareness.
- Think independently
Thinking from first principles and trying to generate new ideas is fun, and finding people to exchange them with is a great way to get better at this. The next step is to find easy, fast ways to test these ideas in the real world.
Bonus: you can figure out what to do in situations that seem to have no solution.
- Good salesperson
All great careers, to some degree, become sales jobs.
The best way to be good at sales is to genuinely believe in what you’re selling.
- Make it easy to take risks
It’s often easier to take risks early in your career; you don’t have much to lose, and you potentially have a lot to gain.
When people get used to a comfortable life, a predictable job, and a reputation of succeeding at whatever they do, it gets very hard to leave that behind.
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One of the great joys in life is finding your purpose, excelling at it, and discovering that your impact matters to something larger than yourself.
If what you do can be done by someone else, it eventually will be, and for less money.