Career Direction

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01

Seth Godin · 2007

The Dip

Quit the wrong things early so you have the strength to push through the right dip.

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Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon · 2012

How Will You Measure Your Life?

The measure of a life is not the trophy case. It is the strategy your choices quietly prove.

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Sheryl Sandberg · 2013

Lean In

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

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Scott Adams · 2013

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

A goal can disappoint you once. A system can keep paying you while you learn.

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Seth Godin · 2010

Linchpin

The job is not to wait for a map. The job is to make art generous enough that people would miss it if it disappeared.

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Keith Ferrazzi · 2005

Never Eat Alone

The currency of real networking is generosity, not scarcity. Build a table where people leave better connected than they arrived.

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David Epstein · 2019

Range

The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.

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Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010

Rework

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

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Cal Newport · 2024

Slow Productivity

A slower approach to work is not a retreat from ambition. It is how ambition survives long enough to become craft.

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Cal Newport · 2012

So Good They Can't Ignore You

The work you love is usually built after you become useful enough to earn better choices.

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Austin Kleon · 2012

Steal Like an Artist

Every artist is a collector with taste, a thief with ethics, and a maker who changes the evidence by hand.

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Tom Rath · 2007

Strengths Finder 2.0

You cannot be anything you want to be, but you can be a lot more of who you already are.

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Timothy Ferriss · 2007

The 4-Hour Workweek

Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

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Spencer Johnson · 1998

Who Moved My Cheese?

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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Scott H. Young · 2019

Ultralearning

The fastest education is the one designed around reality instead of permission.

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Katty Kay, Claire Shipman · 2014

The Confidence Code

Confidence is not the absence of doubt. It is the decision to let action have the final word.

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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica · 2009

The Element

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.

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Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Designing Your Life

You can't think your way into a new life. You build your way in.

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Barbara Sher · 1994

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

Desire is information. Treat it like a clue, not a commandment.

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Peter F. Drucker · 1999

Managing Oneself

Explore the core idea, community insights, and practical actions from this read.

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Meg Jay

The Defining Decade

The twenties are not a developmental downtime. They are the defining decade of adulthood.

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Richard Nelson Bolles · 1970

What Color Is Your Parachute?

The search gets less vague when you can describe the work, people, field, and conditions you are looking for.

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Tina Seelig · 2009

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

Opportunity is often a problem wearing a bad costume.