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No. So you can become the full version of yourself. The version that doesn’t hide. And feel shy. And stay quiet when you know the answer.

The 4 Types of Professional Time

There are four types of professional time:

1. Management: Meetings, calls, presentations, email, etc. Most of us spend the majority of our professional lives here.


2. Creation: Writing, coding, building, preparing, etc. It drives growth, but most of us try to squeeze this in between Management Time blocks.


3. Consumption:

I don’t think you need to bring your whole self to work. I think you need to bring the parts of yourself to work that will help you get the job done.

Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

The other thing you need is a willingness to break rules. Paradoxical as it sounds, if you want to fix your model of the world, it helps to be the sort of person who's comfortable breaking rules. From the point of view of the old model, which everyone including you initially shares, the new model usually breaks at least implicit rules.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

So, he began to broaden his network and ask advice, not about how others felt about him, but around his development plan and whether it tied to the company’s success. In time, he arrived at an objective set of measures that made sense to him as well as the broader community of people he valued and wanted to lead.

Similarly, if you're trying to build a powerful tool, make it gratuitously unrestrictive. A powerful tool almost by definition will be used in ways you didn't expect, so err on the side of eliminating restrictions, even if you don't know what the benefit will be.