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At the start of 2019, I wrote down every lesson I learned throughout the year.
Some are personal, others professional. Some are small, others bigs. But they were all learned from experience, not clipped from a book.
Here are a few.
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1. An emotionally intelligent team is easier to manage than a team of "genius assholes". They are faster to redirect, more adaptable, faster to ask for help, and work better with other teams. That said, making the team a psychologically safe space takes real work.
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Chris Albon
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2. The only things that matters at the end of the day are the things you make. How you make them, and the productivity porn in-between is meaningless at the end.
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Chris Albon
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3. Be brutally honest about the identifying the very best thing you can be working on. The things that if you do them would have a huge impact on your life. Ignore everything else
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4. The social world is an infinite set of overlapping games. People will try to convince you to play their game (e.g. watch their TV show or click their ad), but that game doesn't necessarily help your goals. Instead play you own game.
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Chris Albon
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5. There are an infinite number of things to spend your attention on. So, so many of them don't matter. It does not help you to know some actor is divorcing another actor. Your life is not better for it. Instead be distracted by what matters to you, what advances your goals.
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Chris Albon
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6. Don't work towards job security but career security. You can lose your job even when things seem to be going well (e.g. a strategic shift at a successful company leads to layoffs). Work hard at your job, but accept that your time there is finite, whether two or ten years.
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Chris Albon
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7. Take time off, exercise, stay healthy. You tend to power through things, sacrificing your health in the process. This can sometimes be useful in the short term, but over long periods will absoluitely wreck you.
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Neil Kodner
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these are terrific; thanks for writing these up. I'd RT but everyone who follows me already follows you ;)
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Shayan Sadar
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Great points! My list for this year would be somewhat similar.
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Erik Burd
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Bookmarked!
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