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Ep. 187: Helping 100K Employees Work Deeper

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Build a Great Career?

career capital theory is a theory i lay out in my two thousand and 12 book. It treats the job market like an economic market, where attributes that make great jobs great are rare and valuable. So if you want those, you have to have something rare and valuable to offer in return. And so when it comes to thinking about how to build a great career, instead of obsessing over just match theory, what am i meant to do? You instead, see it more economically. What rare and valuable skills can i build up than i then use as leverage to get into my career? Things are going to make my career even better,. To move it towards attributes that resonate, away from things

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