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abstract, you have to try them out what you will love
with small experiments
Autonomy
Relatedness
leads to a myth - that somewhere people don’t find this certainty and
there is a magic right job that you change jobs and careers as a result
are meant to do of this search for certainty
one factor tends to determine winner take all - rock star - lots of the answer to the question - what
whether you succeed on not people competing and few spots should I do with my life? What am i
trying to achieve?
1. is this a winner take all market or
many routes to success
auction - many different types of an auction? explore the concrete possibilities
can leverage the career capital you career capital surrounding a new idea
already have make little bets try out something bold that ‘holds
how you will assess whether what the promise of making life more
3. define good
you are doing is good or not? interesting’
New Node 2. identify your capital type 5 habits of an artisan have a broad mission
have a mission
time - I will focus hard on this for X develop career capital
mins deliberate practice is rarely
set goals to overcome resistance enjoyable and almost always 4. Stretch and destroy refine your purpose
capture the results of the hard uncomfortable don’t feel you have to start with a
focus in a useful form big idea and then plan out the learn from each little bet and adjust
project try different, small, low risk course
be diligent, be ‘patiently willing to experiments and notice the
reject shiny new pursuits’ so you 5. Be patient be tentative outcome look for the avenues likely to lead to
don’t get derailed
So Good They Can’t Ignore You outstanding results
freelancers have more creativity, ‘you have to get good before you
control and impact but only if they can expect good work’
The power of career capital
have rare and valuable skills. it isn’t sustainable
changing careers and starting from ‘it is dangerous to pursue more
people won’t pay you for it
scratch is rarely a good idea, control before you have career
instead grow your skills so you can capital to offer in exchange’ this sort of blind courage leads to
use that to get what you want failure and unhappiness
you think the job does something working right is more important t
don’t become a freelancer or make
useless or bad in the world than finding the right work
bold requests until you have career
you have to work with people you red flag that career capital won’t certain jobs are better suited to capital once you have rare and valuable you will need to fight this - which
really dislike help you get autonomy etc applying career capital theory skills your employer will try to get you can only do if you really have
control of you - they want you career capital
there aren’t opportunities to be available all the time etc. They want
noticed for being good you to keep doing the same work.
you have to be offering genuine it is really hard to convince people only go after more control if you
value to give you money have evidence that people want to
pay for what you have to offer
‘do what people are willing to pay investors who will loan you money
seek evidence for this
for’ to start up