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@chris
#career #selfhelp
#291 — Where is Happiness?

The Importance of Focusing on Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence in Your Career

5min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Fluid and crystallized intelligence are two different types of intelligence, and the difference between them is that fluid intelligence gets better through your twenties and thirties, while crystallized intelligence stays high in your seventies and eighties.
  • The best way to use your fluid intelligence is to do things that reload on it, like being a poet or historian, while using your crystallized intelligence to learn new things and teach them.
@jondidathing
#wisdom #advice #career #principles #productivity
Dr. Lex Fridman: Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive

Work-Life Balance Is Best Learnt the Hard Way

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Successful people often talk about the importance of worklife balance, but they often forget the value of the journey they took to that lesson.
  • It's important to learn the hard way.
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@am
#597 - Lewis Howes - How To Defeat Your Self Doubt

Framework to Overcome Self-Doubt and Find Your Meaningful Mission

7min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Figuring out your mission in life is important, and can be helped by assessing your passions, power, and problem you want to solve.
  • When you have a mission, you are more likely to be successful.
@raz
Face the uncertainty: one area at a time or the whole journey at once?
The Tools You Need To Embrace Uncertainty | Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr

How to focus on one thing at a time and achieve success

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • It is better to focus on one thing at a time in order to achieve success.
  • It is important to learn and gauge your progress before moving on to the next important task.
@lucia
#career #learning #personaldevelopment
The Pathless Path: How To Recreate Your Life And Career In 2023 - Paul Millerd

Career Crafting - Discover what you value through experiments

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Figure out what you value in your free time.
  • Try out different activities to figure out what you enjoy.
  • Figure out if the activity is energizing or a chore.
@gautreaux
#wisdom #mindset #mentalmodels #lifestyle #principles
#157 Carolyn Coughlin: Become A Better Listener

Mosaic as a new metaphor for the idea of work-life balance

5min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Using the language "I choose to" helps people to see their actions as choices, rather than being forced or controlled by the world or others.
  • This can help people to feel more in control and satisfied with their lives, as they are able to see the beauty in their mosaic even when things are busy.
@eddie
#job #interview #advice
Finding–and becoming–great mentors and sponsors with Carla Harris

How to Answer the Greatest Weakness Questions in a Job Interview

58sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • It is acceptable to say that you have a weakness that is real but not disqualifying.
  • Something that is real but not disqualifying can be something that you are good at but not great at, or something that you are trying to learn.
@joshboone
#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

“Do You Really Need to Go to College?” Stress-Test Career Paths Before Deciding.

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Consider going to a workplace to observe the job you want to do
  • Figure out what you want to do and in what context
  • Expensive college costs should be considered when deciding to attend college
@itach_i
Breaking Through When You Feel Stuck

Strategies for Exploring and Pushing Through Stickiness in the workplace

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • There are two strategies for finding good things: explore or exploit.
  • Exploration involves trying as many different approaches as possible.
  • Managers can encourage exploration by letting people try different things.
@souravghosh
#672: Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, The Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, Life Lessons from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Positive Change

How can I become what I want to become? : Seth Godin’s Simple Answer

34sec
AI Key Takeaways
@AidfulAI
#insights #success #principles #business
The SECRET to Kicking Ass and Achieving Your Full Potential | Sarah Robb O'Hagan on Impact Theory

How to Supercharge Your Career: Work to save your company and not to please your boss.

40sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • Employees should not try to please their bosses, as this will only result in them doing the business around the way that the boss expects them to.
  • Instead, employees should come up with their own ideas to solve problems, as this will result in them fighting harder for the idea than if they were to simply follow the boss's instructions.
@shantal
Cultivating good power with longtime IBM CEO Ginni Rometty

The Importance of Loyalty and Finding Passion in Your Career

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@itach_i
How to break the spin cycle at work

Overcoming the Feeling of Being Left Out of Important Conversations with suggestions

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@estebantala
How Anyone Can Develop The Mindset Of A Multi-Million Dollar Entrepreneur - Daniel Priestley

The downside of freelancing and the path to becoming an expert entrepreneur

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@shantal
257: Channeling Into Your Greatness To Achieve Success In Your Career(And Life)

Navigating Getting Declined for a Raise

4min
AI Key Takeaways
@joshboone
The problem of incentive when looking to further your career.
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Ego and Chasing Recognition as a Scientist

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • It is important to be careful not to let your ego get in the way of your scientific judgement.
  • It is also important to be aware of the power that your discovery may have over those who are not part of the original discovery.
@shantal
Let’s Talk About Money

The Impact of Recent Laws on Salary Disclosure in Job Applications

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@itach_i
love the last part where the speaker says thinking work fundamentally as a means for life outside of work is no less noble.
Stop Looking for the Perfect Job

How to Enter the Workforce in a Way That Sets You Up for a Good Enough Career

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Start with your vision of a life well lived before thinking about your career
  • Some people may prioritize earning a high salary and being in a high-pressure work environment, while others may prioritize a lower cost of living or work-life balance
@shantal
Finding–and becoming–great mentors and sponsors with Carla Harris

Tips on Getting Mentors and Sponsors in Your Career

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Important career decisions happen in rooms where you are not present, so find someone to carry your paper
  • To attract mentors and sponsors, study your organization and identify decision-makers with visibility into your work
  • Build relationships with two or three potential mentors/sponsors through frequency of touch, such as saying hello in the morning or offering to grab coffee
@shantal
Let’s Talk About Money

The effects of pay transparency on motivation and performance

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Learning about how your salary compares to your peers can have a negative or positive impact depending on whether you are earning less or more than anticipated.
  • Knowing what your boss earns can be motivating if you find out they earn more than expected.
  • Finding out that your boss earns more than you anticipated can lead to increased motivation and effort at work.