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Speaker 1: It's important to know this. If you're accelerating your career,
Speaker 1: and if you like that word, accelerate, you will disrupt
Speaker 1: the status quo. As long as you're not doing anything
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Speaker 1: to On Purpose. I'm your host, Jay Shetty, and I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful that you've come back for this solo episode.
Speaker 1: It's that time of year where I like to get
Speaker 1: reflective and introspective because as it comes to the end
Speaker 1: of a year, it's so important to use our time
Speaker 1: wisely to think back as to what we would edit
Speaker 1: for next year, what we would improve, what we would remove,
Speaker 1: and how we're going to move forward now. Today's episode
Speaker 1: is all about creative ways to accelerate your career in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and do the work you love. How
Speaker 1: many of you know that you could be doing better
Speaker 1: at work? How many of you know raise your hands,
Speaker 1: nod your heads if you can not if you're driving.
Speaker 1: How many of you know that there's more you can
Speaker 1: bring creatively, innovatively and productivity wise to your workplace. And
Speaker 1: how many of you know that you want to bring love, passion,
Speaker 1: and enthusiasm because there's a promotion that you're after, there's
Speaker 1: a shift that you're after, there's a transition that you're wanting,
Speaker 1: and maybe some of you are even wanting to quit
Speaker 1: your job and pursue your passion. If that's you, then
Speaker 1: this episode is for you. If you know a friend
Speaker 1: who's going through a tough time period right now at work,
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. This is the episode for them. Now.
Speaker 1: You might be wondering why the title has twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four in it. You're like, Jay, it's twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: I know it's November, but why are we talking about
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I'll tell you why. It's because twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four begins now. Actually, every day you will experience
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life from now on in
Speaker 1: your life begins now. It all begins right now. And
Speaker 1: what's really interesting is that we often wait for the
Speaker 1: date to come around to make a change, to make
Speaker 1: an effort to think about it. We wait till the
Speaker 1: first of January to think, well, what do I want
Speaker 1: to do this year? And by then it's too late.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you wake up in the morning and
Speaker 1: you think, well, what do I want to do today?
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, that is a wasted thought, right,
Speaker 1: You've wasted time because you haven't given yourself the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go straight into the groove with being active, being energized,
Speaker 1: being engaged. But now you're spending half the day trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out. It's the same as what we
Speaker 1: do for entertainment. We sit down to say, well, what
Speaker 1: should we watch tonight? And you spend an hour and
Speaker 1: a half looking for something to watch. Maybe you watch
Speaker 1: ten minutes of it, you don't like it, and you
Speaker 1: turn it off. Right, how many times have you done that?
Speaker 1: We've all been there, and it's really interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 1: We wait till the moment in order to think about
Speaker 1: how important it is now that doesn't matter for some things.
Speaker 1: It works And you may be thinking, well, Jay, how
Speaker 1: does that count as being present? Well, it does because
Speaker 1: you're valuing the present so much because you realize the
Speaker 1: effect it has on the future. That is what makes
Speaker 1: you want to be present right now. Now, there are
Speaker 1: five weeks left till the end of the year, and
Speaker 1: those can be used to prepare for next year's wins.
Speaker 1: They can be used proactively be ready in your mindset now.
Speaker 1: By the way, at this time of year, I also
Speaker 1: take a break. I also look forward to resting and
Speaker 1: refueling and rejuvenating, and that's part of what's going to
Speaker 1: help me win for next year. So I'm not taking
Speaker 1: away celebrating and having a good time. I love to
Speaker 1: do all that, and I will be doing all of
Speaker 1: that as well. But I also want you for the
Speaker 1: time you still do have at work to think about this.
Speaker 1: The time that I am at work, I always use
Speaker 1: the end of year to plan for the year ahead.
Speaker 1: It gives me a head start next year when I
Speaker 1: get back after the holidays, and it stops me from
Speaker 1: trying to play catch up with myself. How many times
Speaker 1: do you come back in January and you think you're
Speaker 1: already behind, right, you think you've already missed out on something,
Speaker 1: You already think there's too many opportunities. You already think that, oh,
Speaker 1: I should have been ahead, I could have done this,
Speaker 1: And then that that perpetuates the thought of the year.
Speaker 1: That becomes the thought of the year, right, it becomes
Speaker 1: the focus of the year, and playing catch up. I
Speaker 1: should have done more last year, I should have done this,
Speaker 1: I could have done that. And it's so important to
Speaker 1: get ahead for yourself. This isn't about you ahead of
Speaker 1: your friends, your colleagues, the people that you work with.
Speaker 1: It's not about that. It's about you feeling in charge
Speaker 1: and control of your life. Now. This was inspired because
Speaker 1: I speak to so many organizations. Just this month, I've
Speaker 1: spoken to some of the biggest, biggest corporate companies in
Speaker 1: the country, and I've been traveling around speaking to them,
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting down with individuals that work inside these organizations.
Speaker 1: Some of them are even entrepreneurs outside the organizations. And
Speaker 1: I talk to people about stories of their experiences, why
Speaker 1: they stayed at a company for thirty years, why they
Speaker 1: left after three months, what made them switch career paths.
Speaker 1: And today I want to share with you some of
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaways as well, because I think people often
Speaker 1: forget that I alway worked in the corporate world as well,
Speaker 1: and during that time, I also wanted to accelerate my career.
Speaker 1: I wanted to accelerate my career creatively, I wanted to
Speaker 1: accelerate my career professionally, and I wanted to find ways
Speaker 1: of being better and standing out. How many of you
Speaker 1: right now feel like you're always fitting in, You're not
Speaker 1: standing out, You're being unnoticed right, No one's spotting your potential,
Speaker 1: people are not seeing you for who you are and
Speaker 1: what you can bring, and you're actually feeling like you
Speaker 1: just blend in. Right. If you're feeling that way, this
Speaker 1: is what you need to think about. So let's dive
Speaker 1: into number one. This is without a doubt, I would
Speaker 1: say this is the most important skill in life, right,
Speaker 1: not just at work. This is the most important creative
Speaker 1: skill in life. And it will sound like it isn't,
Speaker 1: but I want you to give it a moment. So
Speaker 1: the skill is hidden behind this lesson, and the lesson
Speaker 1: is understand your company's algorithm. Now, you may hear words
Speaker 1: like algorithm related to social media, related to the Internet,
Speaker 1: related to the online world. Right when we talk about
Speaker 1: TikTok or Instagram, everyone's always talking about the algorithm. Now,
Speaker 1: if we really think about it for a second, all
Speaker 1: algorithm actually means reading the dictionary. Definition is a process
Speaker 1: or set of rules to be followed in calculations or
Speaker 1: other problem solving operations, especially by a computer. Now, the
Speaker 1: part that I love about this is a process or
Speaker 1: set of rules to be followed, right in order to
Speaker 1: have success, in order for something to work. And what's
Speaker 1: really fascinating is that your company also has an algorithm.
Speaker 1: And the skill, the number one skill that I believe
Speaker 1: we all need is pattern spotting, pattern recognition, pattern analysis,
Speaker 1: and then actions based on that pattern analysis. What I
Speaker 1: find in an organization is most of us are listening
Speaker 1: to what we're told to do to succeed and missing
Speaker 1: what we see is what makes people successful. Let me
Speaker 1: take that again. Most of us are listening to what
Speaker 1: we're told to do to help us succeed and missing
Speaker 1: what we see helps people succeed. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: When I was working in the corporate world, we were
Speaker 1: told that to be really good at our careers, we
Speaker 1: had to get good at Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Speaker 1: And that seemed like a fairly small goal. It feeled
Speaker 1: fairly reachable for most people, and it probably wasn't challenging enough.
Speaker 1: But then when I looked around at the people who
Speaker 1: were giving our presentations, who were talking, who were guiding us,
Speaker 1: that wasn't their skill set. Their PowerPoint didn't look the
Speaker 1: best to me, their Excel spreadsheet didn't look the best
Speaker 1: to me. All of a sudden, the pattern that they
Speaker 1: were seting and sharing and the pattern that they were
Speaker 1: living were two different things. And that's when I started
Speaker 1: to take notice and think, well, what is that person
Speaker 1: done at this company to succeed? What have they done?
Speaker 1: And by the way, our minds, generally wired for negativity,
Speaker 1: will come up with all sorts of reasons. Oh they've
Speaker 1: been doing something dodgy. Oh they've just been sucking up.
Speaker 1: Oh they've just been putting in extra time. Like our
Speaker 1: mind will come up with easy answers in order for
Speaker 1: us to not have to do the hard work. Our
Speaker 1: mind often tells us everyone else got there easy, so
Speaker 1: that we don't have to do the hard work. Right,
Speaker 1: our mind makes other people's sacrifices and shifts and challenges
Speaker 1: seem easy so that we can avoid hard work. So
Speaker 1: I want you to take a real look at this.
Speaker 1: I want you to really pay attention to this right.
Speaker 1: Understand your company's algorithm. Spot the pattern, what working for people?
Speaker 1: What is shifting for people? Look at the pattern, not
Speaker 1: the person. We look at the person and we think, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't like them. I don't like their personality. I
Speaker 1: don't really I don't know how they ever made it there.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Don't look at the personality. Look
Speaker 1: at the pattern. What is the pattern? What I found
Speaker 1: in the companies that I've worked in is that it
Speaker 1: was about who you know. For a lot of people,
Speaker 1: it's about who you know. Now you may sit there
Speaker 1: and say, well I don't want to know that person. Well,
Speaker 1: then the chances are that we won't do well at
Speaker 1: that company. Right, Okay, who do I need to know?
Speaker 1: Another thing that I saw is that it was people
Speaker 1: who were able to go above and beyond. The people
Speaker 1: who were succeeding were not the people who were doing
Speaker 1: the bare minimum, were not the people who were shirking responsibility.
Speaker 1: It was people who were able to take responsibility in
Speaker 1: areas that matter, right, in areas that matter to the company.
Speaker 1: This is a big point. Pattern spotting is not just
Speaker 1: about spotting the pattern that makes sense to you. It's
Speaker 1: spotting the patterns that make sense to the company. So,
Speaker 1: for example, when I joined this corporate company that I
Speaker 1: worked for, I noticed that the pattern was in line
Speaker 1: of growing the digital side of the business. That was
Speaker 1: the area of focus. That's what they wanted to build on.
Speaker 1: And if I started notice that, it would have made
Speaker 1: no sense for me to not give my energy to
Speaker 1: that area. Right. That is so important to not let
Speaker 1: go of that energy to build and develop that area.
Speaker 1: If the company is focusing on digital focus, right, it's
Speaker 1: focusing on certain aspects of the business, It's so important
Speaker 1: that your energy and your skills get directed there as well.
Speaker 1: So how do we study patterns effectively. Number one, select
Speaker 1: your case study i e. People who get promoted, and equally,
Speaker 1: you could study why people don't get promoted. Right. I
Speaker 1: literally did that. I looked at people who are succeeding,
Speaker 1: and I looked at people who were failing. Then I
Speaker 1: analyzed why it was again not focusing on personality traits,
Speaker 1: but focusing on the pattern of how they operate inside
Speaker 1: the organization. And third, this is really important, emulate. Don't
Speaker 1: imitate when we're imitating, when we try and be like someone,
Speaker 1: when we try and kind of trying to shadow someone's personality,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. We have to emulate that energy. Now
Speaker 1: you mean always sitting there going jay Wow, this sounds
Speaker 1: like I'm playing games. It's not. It's pattern spotting. Everything
Speaker 1: in the world, whether it's investing, whether it's real estate,
Speaker 1: whether it's a healthy relationship. Life is all about pattern spotting.
Speaker 1: What does it mean When you're looking at how someone
Speaker 1: builds good habits, it's pattern spotting. When you're analyzing someone's discipline,
Speaker 1: what are you looking at? It's pattern spotting. Look at
Speaker 1: the patterns inside your organization. Some of these patterns become
Speaker 1: easier to track through technology, right, and see how many
Speaker 1: emails someone sends. You can see the type of conversation
Speaker 1: that they leave to have on a phone call versus
Speaker 1: an email. You can see the meetings and the way
Speaker 1: people navigate them. This is number one. Now number two
Speaker 1: kind of link to the first point, but identify your
Speaker 1: organization's growth area. Now, this will likely be a technology.
Speaker 1: It could be AI, it could be a social media platform,
Speaker 1: it could be augmented reality, it could be communication through technology.
Speaker 1: Identifying your company's growth technology is probably one of the
Speaker 1: biggest investments you can make right now. People who are
Speaker 1: able to use chat GBT effectively are massively effective in
Speaker 1: our company. It's a useful skill to have. And when
Speaker 1: I see someone diving into that, when I see someone
Speaker 1: engaged with that, it's exciting for me because I'm thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, this is the person that's understanding this
Speaker 1: platform and this app and I now know that we
Speaker 1: have someone on the team who's thinking about that. This
Speaker 1: applies to social media too. If someone's able to focus
Speaker 1: deeply on a platform and understand how it works, that's
Speaker 1: really useful. This is what I was I remember when
Speaker 1: I joined the corporate company I worked at, they were
Speaker 1: working on social media as a big part of their
Speaker 1: digital strategy. So inside the digital growth area, there were
Speaker 1: many different things. There was crypto, there was VR, and
Speaker 1: there was social media. Now here's the personalization part. Crypto
Speaker 1: wasn't exciting to me at the time. By the way,
Speaker 1: this was ten years ago before crypto was relevant. Now
Speaker 1: you may say, Jay, you're an Idia. If crypto was
Speaker 1: excited to you, it'd have been very lucrative. Sure, but
Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy it. It's so important that I'm spotting
Speaker 1: the growth area in my company that I love. Why
Speaker 1: because I'll excel at it. Why because I'll perform better
Speaker 1: at it if I'm aware of it. Right, So let
Speaker 1: me focus first on that. Second of all, now that
Speaker 1: I've focused on that area, that's why I chose social media.
Speaker 1: For me, studying and learning about social media was so
Speaker 1: much fun. It was so exciting, it was so interesting.
Speaker 1: It was so enthralling, genuinely, like I was like a
Speaker 1: little kid every day trying to learn about this new
Speaker 1: thing that I knew nothing about, right, knew nothing about?
Speaker 1: And so I want you to think about it. What
Speaker 1: do you know nothing about? But that is a growth
Speaker 1: there in your company. Most of us have never read
Speaker 1: a book after we finished college. Most of us have
Speaker 1: never tried to learn about a new platform since we
Speaker 1: finished college. What can we do in order to change that?
Speaker 1: How many of us are going to allow ourselves to
Speaker 1: focus on a growth area inside our organization that could
Speaker 1: make all the difference? Right? Okay? Number three, It's important
Speaker 1: to know this that if you're accelerating your career, and
Speaker 1: if you like that word accelerate, you will disrupt the
Speaker 1: status quo. And I just I'm gonna say this because
Speaker 1: I have to. As long as you're not doing anything
Speaker 1: illegal or dodgy or whatever it may be, it's okay
Speaker 1: to rustle some feathers you will. I remember that there
Speaker 1: where senior people in my organization who were getting weirded
Speaker 1: out by why this young person was trying to make
Speaker 1: a change, trying to do things differently, coming up with
Speaker 1: creative ideas, pitching them, and he was upsetting them. And
Speaker 1: by the way, that was very weird for me. It's
Speaker 1: amazing to me how some new person like me could
Speaker 1: intimidate someone who'd been at the company for much longer
Speaker 1: than me. And it's really uncomfortable to go through that.
Speaker 1: But I want you to know that it's part of
Speaker 1: the path. Right, Learning to be respectful, learning to let
Speaker 1: your ideas talk for themselves and be disruptive and innovative
Speaker 1: is the key. Disruption and innovation is not an act
Speaker 1: of ego. Right, Disruption, creativity, innovation is not an act
Speaker 1: of ego. It's not about being better than someone. It's
Speaker 1: not about showing you are better than someone. It's not
Speaker 1: about making someone else look bad. It's about presenting your
Speaker 1: ideas in such a way that they are unstoppable that
Speaker 1: someone can't ignore them. That's what we're after, that's the
Speaker 1: goal of what we're trying to do and what we're
Speaker 1: looking to do. And I think it's so important that
Speaker 1: we remember that because it can so easily and very
Speaker 1: quickly become an ego battle where it's now us against
Speaker 1: the person. Notice how everything becomes personal, right we make
Speaker 1: it about us against the person, instead of making about
Speaker 1: the pattern, instead of making about the technology, instead of
Speaker 1: making it about the creativity. Step number four. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you this. If I told you I was going
Speaker 1: to invest in one hundred hours of training for you coaching,
Speaker 1: how would you decide how to spend that hundred hours
Speaker 1: on things you're good at, things you're average at, or
Speaker 1: things that you are bad at. How would you decide
Speaker 1: to spread that hundred hours if you had the ratio
Speaker 1: of figuring it out? So for most people, a lot
Speaker 1: of people will go thirty three, thirty three, thirty three.
Speaker 1: Just make it balanced. It makes sense. Some people will say, well,
Speaker 1: ten ten, eighty, I'll spend most on what I'm bad at.
Speaker 1: Some people will say, okay, well I will spend the
Speaker 1: most on what I'm average at, so let me invest
Speaker 1: in the middle part. Some will say, let me invest
Speaker 1: in what I'm good at. Now there's no right or
Speaker 1: wrong answer, But when they studied the healthiest, wealthiest, and
Speaker 1: wisest people on the planet, they found that their breakdown
Speaker 1: was eighty ten ten or one hundred zero zero. The healthiest, wealthiest,
Speaker 1: and wisest people in the world went all in on
Speaker 1: their strengths and didn't focus as much on their weaknesses.
Speaker 1: So if they were already great at something, they invested
Speaker 1: in it, because then they would become world class in it.
Speaker 1: If you are a phenomenal creative, if you're phenomenal with
Speaker 1: the technology, if you're a phenomenal strategist, go all in.
Speaker 1: Read every book, go on every course, go on every program,
Speaker 1: you will become unstoppable. Now here's the caveat. When it
Speaker 1: comes to your hard skills, focus on your strengths. When
Speaker 1: it comes to your soft skills, focus on your weaknesses.
Speaker 1: If you're weak in empathy, in compassion, in communication, you
Speaker 1: must work on it. But when it comes to your
Speaker 1: hard skills strategy, Excel, PowerPoint leadership, make sure that you
Speaker 1: focus on your strengths and go all in on them right,
Speaker 1: become unstoppable, become phenomenal at those hard skills. Focus on
Speaker 1: your strengths. See, there's this beautiful quote by Albert Einstein
Speaker 1: where he said that everyone's a genius. But if you
Speaker 1: judge your fish by its ability to climb a tree,
Speaker 1: it will spend its whole life believing that it's stupid.
Speaker 1: And so many of us are fishes trying to climb
Speaker 1: a tree. So many of us are birds trying to swim,
Speaker 1: So many of us are giraffes trying to be lions.
Speaker 1: So many of it's a lions trying to be zebra.
Speaker 1: And the list goes on, right. But our zone of genius,
Speaker 1: our zone of flow, our zone of connection with ourselves
Speaker 1: and being aligned with ourselves where we've become unstoppable should
Speaker 1: not be ignored. And there's this incredible conversation that I
Speaker 1: talk about often between Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. And
Speaker 1: Steve Wozniak goes up to Steve Jobs and he says,
Speaker 1: what do you even do? He says, what do you
Speaker 1: even do? You're not a coder, you're not an artist,
Speaker 1: you're not a marketer. What do you even do? And
Speaker 1: Steve Job says, musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.
Speaker 1: Now we'll take the ego out of that for a second,
Speaker 1: but what that means is that his ability was not
Speaker 1: to play the cello, the bass or the violin. His
Speaker 1: ability was to bring it all together. What is your
Speaker 1: ability play to that work, to that show that off
Speaker 1: at work? And this is a big part of it,
Speaker 1: demonstrate it. A lot of us want to defend our strengths,
Speaker 1: but we don't demonstrate it. We want to be rewarded
Speaker 1: for a strength we haven't shown yet, but we're not
Speaker 1: demonstrating it. This was one of the biggest mistakes I
Speaker 1: made in the workplace, where I was hoping someone would
Speaker 1: spot my talents rather than me being able to demonstrate them.
Speaker 1: Find creative ways. Creative outlets. Take on an extra curricular
Speaker 1: at work, take on a group project at work, display it,
Speaker 1: show it. People win them when they do things to
Speaker 1: help their workplace win. Right. Do the thing that actually
Speaker 1: helps your workplace win, not just that feels comfortable and
Speaker 1: makes you feel busy. Right. A lot of people on
Speaker 1: our teams in the past and companies used to organize
Speaker 1: things that were easy for them, but the company didn't
Speaker 1: really value it. Again, I'm sharing this. If you want
Speaker 1: to win in any era, even if you're an entrepreneur,
Speaker 1: if you're an entrepreneur, you have to do this. You
Speaker 1: have to focus on your strength. So many entrepreneurs that
Speaker 1: I know are forcing themselves to be influencers, or so
Speaker 1: many influencers and are forcing themselves to be CEOs, and
Speaker 1: both of those are taking away from the world your gift. Now. Fifth,
Speaker 1: it's so important to creatively network. Now, what is creative networking?
Speaker 1: A lot of people think networking is going to events
Speaker 1: and handing out your card. It isn't. Creatively networking is
Speaker 1: making sure that you reach out to everyone you want
Speaker 1: to learn from in your organization. Now you may send
Speaker 1: one hundred emails. I remember I used to email a
Speaker 1: managing director every week, maybe even two to three, and
Speaker 1: maybe out of the fifty managing directors I emailed, maybe
Speaker 1: only two or three actually met me. But guess what
Speaker 1: those two or three changed my career. Now you may say, oh,
Speaker 1: that SAME's desperate. I don't want to be reaching out
Speaker 1: to fifty people. I feel uncomfortable. I've found that the
Speaker 1: person playing the game of numbers will never lose. If
Speaker 1: you're not on one hundred doors, you will get one
Speaker 1: to ten to open. If you're not on one thousand doors,
Speaker 1: you will get one to one hundred to open. If
Speaker 1: you're knock on a million doors, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. You get the point. A lot of us
Speaker 1: are knocking on two doors, and when those two doors
Speaker 1: don't open, we feel disheartened. Some of us are knocking
Speaker 1: on twenty doors and then getting exhausted. The more doors
Speaker 1: you knock on, the more we'll open up. It's just numbers, right,
Speaker 1: It's just numbers. I remember the day after I realized
Speaker 1: that I was struggling at a point in my career,
Speaker 1: I sent a thousand emails to everyone I knew, creative emails,
Speaker 1: personalized emails, focused emails. How are you using technology to
Speaker 1: stay connected to people I love? Using social media to
Speaker 1: stay connected to people that I love and appreciating Networking
Speaker 1: is not a technique of being sleazy, and it's keeping
Speaker 1: in touch with people you deeply care about. But if
Speaker 1: someone's in touch with me consistently, effectively, healthily, then it
Speaker 1: becomes so much more easier to collaborate and connect. Now
Speaker 1: I want to share with you a couple more things.
Speaker 1: Number six is flow state. Flow is a book. It's
Speaker 1: a brilliant book. And flow state is a state where
Speaker 1: we see artists, celebrities, authors, athletes all in the zone.
Speaker 1: How many times have you seen Lebron James and thought
Speaker 1: in the zone, or you saw Beyonce send or in
Speaker 1: the zone, or you saw whoever it is that you
Speaker 1: admire and respect Taylor's swift, right. Taylor's swift is in
Speaker 1: the zone. Right. And when we're watching these people, we
Speaker 1: always think, well, they're special, they're gifted. Really, they've just
Speaker 1: tapped in to flow and flow state is where your
Speaker 1: challenge meets your skills. Often what we experience is our
Speaker 1: challenges above our skills, which is where we feel disheartened,
Speaker 1: we feel unmotivated, we feel depressed. Right when your challenge
Speaker 1: is above your skills, it can be demotivating. And then
Speaker 1: some of us it expends to opposite, where our skills
Speaker 1: are above our challenge. We feel bored, we feel lethargic,
Speaker 1: we feel like we're not curious anymore. So what Flow state?
Speaker 1: In the book, what Flow says is we have to
Speaker 1: find a state where our challenges meet our skills. So,
Speaker 1: at any given time in your career in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: ask yourself, do you need to improve your challenge, increase
Speaker 1: your challenge, or do you need to increase your skills? Now,
Speaker 1: if it's your challenge, what are you going to do
Speaker 1: to challenge yourself? Are you going to increase the scope?
Speaker 1: Are you going to increase the scale? Are you going
Speaker 1: to increase the level of responsibility? What are you doing
Speaker 1: to challenge yourself? Challenge doesn't mean doing something entirely new.
Speaker 1: It could mean doing something bigger. It doesn't mean doing
Speaker 1: something bigger. It could be doing something with more detail.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean just doing something with more detail. It
Speaker 1: could be doing lots of harder tasks and doing less.
Speaker 1: It could be doing more right, challenges can look like
Speaker 1: so many things. What's your challenge in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: that you're taking on? And what's the skill you need?
Speaker 1: What's the skill you need to invest in? I want
Speaker 1: you to reflect on that because literally that those two
Speaker 1: questions could transform what twenty twenty four looks like for you.
Speaker 1: And number seven to really be creative and accelerate your career.
Speaker 1: Connect things that seem unexpected. The best solutions come out
Speaker 1: when people do unexpected things. Steve Jobs connected calligraphy and computers.
Speaker 1: Dyson connected art and diffuses, right like art and head
Speaker 1: drivers and diffuses and vacuum cleaners. Who ever ever thought
Speaker 1: that their vacuum cleaner would be good looking? Right? It's
Speaker 1: amazing when two worlds collide. What two worlds are you
Speaker 1: trying to connect? Steve Job said, creativity is just connecting things.
Speaker 1: What are you connecting? Thank you so much for listening
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