Early Career Advice
Career advice for young people and/or people early on in their career
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Early Career Advice
Cool 2 minute movie about real learning. Skaters involved.
The purpose of a job is not like your eye color or height. You have the ability to craft what a job means to you. And as the research shows, that “crafting” plays a key role in your satisfaction.
Simone Stolzoff • How to Find Clarity When You ’re at a Career Crossroads
How to Be Lucky¶
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short... See more
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short... See more
Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself
provocative
Don’t force yourself to do anything you hate. If you get too good at this, you won’t be able to figure out when to quit.
Brian Timar • Mimetic
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
Randy Komisar • 6 highlights
amazon.comI like to think of careers as less like ladders and more like lily pads. In retrospect, some hops might look as if they were on a path, while others might look like a digression. Some might prioritize work, others might prioritize life outside of work. But whatever you hop to next, know you’ll have the chance to hop again. Little in life is
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