4. Rare Skills
If you want a great job, you need to build up rare and valuation skills to offer in return.
✅So, your goal is to acquire as much career capital as possible, then more opportunities would come.
5. When should you leave your job?
❌If the job:
1. presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself
2. focused on something you think is useless
3. forces you to work with people you really dislike.
6. Deliberate practice is the key to acquiring career capital.
It means that “an activity is designed for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual’s performance.”
✅It requires an obsession with improving and constant learning process.
7. Mike Jackson’s time-tracking spreadsheet
He tracks how he spends every hour of every day. He ensures that he spends time on what’s important instead of what’s immediate.
At the end of the week, he checks how well he achieved his goals, and uses this feedback to guide himself
8. Control your life
Control is one of the most important targets you can choose for investment on your career capital.
✅Gaining control over what you do and how you do it, has been shown up so often in the lives of people who love what they do.
9. Think Small, Act Big
🔴Build your career on a clear and compelling mission.
It focuses your energy toward a useful goal, and this in turn maximizes your impact on your world- a crucial factor in loving what you do.
10. Maximize your chances
✅You should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback.
These small bets allow you to tentatively explore the specific avenues surrounding your general mission.
If you want a great job, you need to build up rare and valuation skills to offer in return.
✅So, your goal is to acquire as much career capital as possible, then more opportunities would come.
5. When should you leave your job?
❌If the job:
1. presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself
2. focused on something you think is useless
3. forces you to work with people you really dislike.
6. Deliberate practice is the key to acquiring career capital.
It means that “an activity is designed for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual’s performance.”
✅It requires an obsession with improving and constant learning process.
7. Mike Jackson’s time-tracking spreadsheet
He tracks how he spends every hour of every day. He ensures that he spends time on what’s important instead of what’s immediate.
At the end of the week, he checks how well he achieved his goals, and uses this feedback to guide himself
8. Control your life
Control is one of the most important targets you can choose for investment on your career capital.
✅Gaining control over what you do and how you do it, has been shown up so often in the lives of people who love what they do.
9. Think Small, Act Big
🔴Build your career on a clear and compelling mission.
It focuses your energy toward a useful goal, and this in turn maximizes your impact on your world- a crucial factor in loving what you do.
10. Maximize your chances
✅You should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback.
These small bets allow you to tentatively explore the specific avenues surrounding your general mission.