Are you a Craftsman or an Artist?
Rick Rubin posed this question on a podcast recently and it made me perk up and take notice. We tend to conflate the two terms but Rubin suggests there’s a difference.
All tagged Choosing Your Career
Omerisms Podcast - Episode 170
From a young age, we're stuck on this idea that we have to get everything right, right from the start. Because you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Truth is, in so many aspects of our lives, especially our careers, that's just patently false. As I discuss in today's episode, you can indeed have second acts.
Omerisms Podcast - Episode 124
It's always struck me as odd that anyone would choose - over the long term - to do work that meant little or nothing to them.
I get that can be the case in the short term, but in the long term, what we do for a living matters, as I discuss in today's episode. Make it count.
Who Will You Ask?
Getting advice is important.
From a young age, we’re taught (or at least should be) that it’s OK to ask for help, that we don’t have to figure out everything on our own, and that there are others who’ve tread our path before. So it’s not a weakness to reach out and ask for guidance. It is, in fact, a strength. I wholeheartedly agree with that.
At the same time, not all advice is equal and it’s well worth remembering a few basic things.
Your Most Important Journeys Will Not Come With a Map*
The thing is we all want certainty. We all want to know that the effort we are putting in will be worth it. That the time and money and sweat and blood and tears had some merit. And that ultimately, it wasn't all for nothing. But the truth is, that that isn't life. You won't know any of that for a fact.
Tom Peters: A Business School Without Wall Street or Consulting?
It's a crazy idea, one that's quite difficult, if not impossible, to implement. (And, many might argue, not desirable, either.) But like a lot of Tom Peters' ideas, it's provocative.