Show up early and stay late is a free way to materially increase your luck surface area. Seek out luck-expanding situations as much as possible. If someone cracks open a door that may present an opportunity, dive through it. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out.
I recently got a message from a 22-year-old reader asking for career advice. Career advice is a topic area that I have always found interesting, probably because I feel it so often misses the mark. I take this as a challenge.
I sat down and synthesized the advice I would have wanted to receive early in my career (or what I would tell my own son if he were just starting out).
The 7 pieces of career advice everyone needs to hear: (1) Swallow the frog, (2) Do the old fashioned things well, (3) Work hard first and smart later, (4) Build storytelling skills, (5) Build a rep for figuring it out, (6) Show up early and stay late, and (7) Dive through cracked doors.