In your career, good entrepreneurial risks include taking on side projects on nights and weekends, embarking on international travel, asking your boss for extra work, and applying for jobs that you don’t think you’re fully qualified for.

When people reflect later in life, it is the things they did not do that generate the greatest despair.

These traits, however, are rare and valuable—no one will hand you a lot of autonomy or impact just because you really want it, for example. Basic economics tells us that if you want something rare and valuable, you need to offer something rare and valuable in return—

asking for help when you need it actually makes people think you are more capable, not less.

the best way to practice is in time-limited sprints, rather than for an unbounded number of hours.

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Set a Plan A that’s your current implementation of building a competitive advantage (your current job, hopefully), but also have a Plan B—something you could pivot to that’s different from but related to your current work. Finally, have a steady Plan Z—a worst-case scenario plan in which you might move back in with your parents

Taken together, Dunbar’s and Uzzi and Spiro’s findings imply that the most successful creative projects are generated by teams that include a healthy mix of pre-existing connections, shared experiences, and totally new perspectives. If you’re looking to enhance your creative potential, then being on a team helps. But it’s not enough to be on any

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