A 22-year-old follower recently messaged me asking for career advice.
Here are the 5 pieces of advice I shared:
1. Swallow the Frog: This is one of the greatest "hacks" to get ahead early in your career. Observe your boss, figure out what they hate doing, learn to do it, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Some of this is likely to elicit “Ok, Boomer” responses—and that’s ok.
I’m a big believer in balance, but I’m an even bigger believer that the early years of your career are the ideal time to do hard, unscalable, unbalanced things to build a foundation for life.
The whole narrative on working smart vs. hard has caused a lot of people to lose the plot.
Leverage is earned—not found.
When you’re starting out, you shouldn’t be focused on leverage.
You should be focused on creating value anywhere and everywhere.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about closed doors, you'll spot a lot of closed doors.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about open doors, you'll spot a lot of open doors.
You'll always find what you seek.
Pessimists sound smart, optimists retire young on beaches.
😂😂😂
There was a great study I’ll dig up and write about that found that self-reported “lucky” people were much better than their “unlucky” counterparts at seeing opportunity before them.
The “unlucky” people didn’t see the opportunity, where the “lucky” people did.