Exploring the benefits of career premortems, reflecting on potential failures and gaining valuable insights. Anticipating and mitigating career risks through prospective hindsight. Reflecting on career regrets, importance of hard data in resumes, and developing purpose.
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Reflecting on Past Advice
Reflect on past career advice you'd give your younger self.
This helps gain a broader, wiser perspective, not just tactical advice.
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Present Advice from Future Self
Imagine giving your present self career advice from an outsider's perspective.
Focus on valuable, long-term goals, not immediate issues.
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Career Pre-Mortem
Perform a career "pre-mortem": imagine future failures and their causes.
Consider controllable and uncontrollable factors, preparing for risks.
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In today's episode, we do a journaling exercise to provide a new lens on developing your own career roadmap.
We're going to practice the power of hindsight, finding our wiser selves, and ultimately looking forward and backward...at the same time. It sounds a little odd, but it's all based in solid cognitive science. If you have a notoriously hard time figuring out your career path, I'd invite you to participate!
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