The Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never Heard - Cal Newport
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The Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never Heard - Cal Newport
- The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.- The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll... See more
Marc Andreessen • Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
1. Your career is not your life2. Explore, then exploit3. Don't do the job you want to tell other people you do. Do the job you want to do.4. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you value—and how much professional success matters to you5. Flow comes from voluntary, difficult, worthwhile work
The Atlantic • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
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Don’t obsess over discovering your true calling. Instead, master rare and valuable skills. Once you build up the career capital that these skills generate, invest it wisely. Use it to acquire control over what you do and how you do it, and to identify and act on a life-changing mission. This philosophy is less sexy than the fantasy of dropping ever
... See moreCal Newport • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore? My advice is to choose a profession that is really easy for you to do and that also allows you to be creative. If it is easy for you to do and somewhat difficult for your peers to do, you will not have to work too hard to b
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
the path to happiness—at least as it concerns what you do for a living—is more complicated than simply answering the classic question “What should I do with my life?”