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@chris
#291 — Where is Happiness?
The Importance of Focusing on Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence in Your Career
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
Dr. Lex Fridman: Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive
Work-Life Balance Is Best Learnt the Hard Way
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
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
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
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
The Pathless Path: How To Recreate Your Life And Career In 2023 - Paul Millerd
Career Crafting - Discover what you value through experiments
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
#157 Carolyn Coughlin: Become A Better Listener
Mosaic as a new metaphor for the idea of work-life balance
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
Finding–and becoming–great mentors and sponsors with Carla Harris
How to Answer the Greatest Weakness Questions in a Job Interview
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.
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
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
AI Key Takeaways
- Becoming a marketer is done by actually becoming a marketer and learning through experience
- One way to gain marketing experience is by raising funds for a charity
- Another way to gain marketing experience is by buying and reselling items online
- Telling a compelling story to others can also develop marketing skills
- Anyone can develop marketing skills regardless of their job title
@AidfulAI
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.
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
AI Key Takeaways
- There is value in staying with one company throughout a career if the company earns your decision to stay.
- It is important to consider whether you are running from something or running to something when making career decisions.
- Having passion for the work you do is a key factor in staying with one company.
- Technology has the potential to make lives better, but it's unrealistic to expect to work on it constantly.
@itach_i
How to break the spin cycle at work
Overcoming the Feeling of Being Left Out of Important Conversations with suggestions
AI Key Takeaways
- Disengagement in organizations is often caused by spinning wheels and feeling stuck in frustrating cycles.
- Not being invited to important meetings can have negative consequences on your work.
- Assumptions about being left off a meeting list are often incorrect.
- Advocate for yourself and communicate with the meeting organizer, assistant, or boss to ensure you are included in important conversations and decisions.
@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
AI Key Takeaways
- Freelancers often take on multiple roles and charge a premium for their services.
- The school system trains us to be component labor in a larger system.
- Entrepreneurs focus on delivering outcomes for their customers.
- Entrepreneurs are experts in their field and know how to organize teams to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Entrepreneurs should strive to be the key person of influence and build a team to deliver the actual outcome.
@shantal
257: Channeling Into Your Greatness To Achieve Success In Your Career(And Life)
Navigating Getting Declined for a Raise
AI Key Takeaways
- Navigating a situation where a raise is declined can be challenging.
- Doing pre-work and market research is important before asking for a raise.
- Gathering multiple data points about salary helps build confidence in the negotiation.
- Talking to recruiters and other professionals in the field can provide valuable insights about market rates.
- Having a current and up-to-date understanding of salary information is crucial.
- Making a case for a desired salary based on work product, projects, and performance evaluations is important.
- It's important to push back and have a conversation if the initial request is declined.
- Continuing to ask and negotiate for a desired salary is recommended.
- Avoid getting into unnecessary explanations and focus on the desired number during the negotiation.
@joshboone
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Ego and Chasing Recognition as a Scientist
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
AI Key Takeaways
- The Massachusetts law prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their previous salaries.
- Employers now ask applicants about their expected salary instead of their previous salary.
- Employees are expected to choose the highest salary they would accept, while still being accepted for the job.
- Employees who think their past earnings are higher than average may reveal that information as a way of showing their outside options.
- Asking about expected salary instead of previous salary may help address gender pay disparities.
- Employers can still make inferences about an applicant's gender and adjust their salary offers accordingly.
- The impact of the law is still uncertain.
@itach_i
Stop Looking for the Perfect Job
How to Enter the Workforce in a Way That Sets You Up for a Good Enough Career
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
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
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.
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