The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
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The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Passion and courage are almost impossible to control and can easily leave you feeling bad about yourself. It’s far easier to simply work at getting really good at something in demand, discovering how those skills can be applied to something else, and then testing your idea in a small way to see if it will pay.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
the best path is to become a patron and to surround ourselves with people willing to do the undone and to take responsibility for what happens next.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Things I wish I had known earlier in my career:
1) Viewing the world with a strategic lens (aka knowing why I am doing what I am doing in the bigger picture) - some questions to ask yourself to get that understanding: a) What does my business sell? b) Why do people buy this product/service category? c) Why do they specifically buy my business’ pr
... See moreAs you let the possibility of merging your career and your passion live in your mind, I’ve tried to distill the patterns that I’ve observed into a series of questions:
Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?
How will you avoid insecurity work?
Can you learn to enjoy the process as the end in itself, no... See more
Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?
How will you avoid insecurity work?
Can you learn to enjoy the process as the end in itself, no... See more