Early Career Advice
Career advice for young people and/or people early on in their career
Kassen Qian and
Early Career Advice
- If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions
The Man Who Does Everything - Adam Grant on The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes
Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.
Advice for those in their 20s: “ten years from now, you need to be able to say that this is the life you chose, not one you settled for.”
A future that is created intentionally is more pleasant than one that is scrapped together by avoidance-driven choices.
Perhaps the best career advice I’ve heard is to lower the stakes. When we loosen our grip on the “right” path to pursue, we open ourselves to what the universe has to offer.
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
