#054 – Career Advice & Taking Risks

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#054 at a Glance:

• Quote that will get you thinking: These things cannot be bought.

• Podcast you should listen to: 15 minutes with the Managing Director of Google Australia.

• Mental Model: When it’s worth taking the risk.

• Hack: How to express a concept that you’re struggling to articulate.

• Tweet I liked: 23 pieces of career advice from Ryan Holiday.

Quote that will get you thinking:

Podcast you should listen to:

AFR’s 15 Minutes With The Boss: Mel Silva

Mel Silva is the Managing Director of Google Australia and joins the AFR this week on its ‘15 Minutes With The Boss’ podcast.

Mel had some really good insights into the importance of moving laterally in your career path, the benefits of acquiring a varied skillset, and her pet hate that everyone knows about at Google.

I’m a big fan of this podcast series – short, sweet, and offers a unique window into the lives of some of the highest performers in the Australian corporate world.

Listen or Watch on Spotify here. Listen on Apple Podcasts here.

[Podcast Length: 19 minutes]

Mental Model:

When It’s Worth Taking The Risk 

Author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks:

“If you know something’s going to work, it’s not worth working on. It requires no courage. It requires no faith. It requires no skin in the game.

Whether you’re a spy or a teacher or a spouse or a painter or an abuela or an astronaut or a monk or a barista or a board-game designer, the bits that matter are the bits you make matter by putting yourself on the line for them.

The unknown is the foundry where you forge your chips. Everything important is uncertain. Sitting with the discomfort of that uncertainty is the hard part, the wedge that can move the world.”

Extremely powerful.

(h/t James Clear)

Hack:

How To Express A Concept That You’re Struggling To Articulate

Great hack from James Clear on how to articulate something that you’re struggling to express clearly and concisely:

1. “Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.

2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).

3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?”

Tweet I liked:

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