Work hard first and smart later

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Number 3. Work hard first and smart later. If you want to accomplish anything meaningful, start by working hard and building a reputation for it. Earn your leverage.
Number 4. Build storytelling skills. World changing CEOs are exceptional at aggregating and communicating data effectively. If you can develop this skill, you'll always be valuable.

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.