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Posts tagged "career and life advice"

The Art Of Doing: How Superachivers Do What They Do - Mercilessly Self Aware →

The world’s most productive and successful people aren’t superhuman.

The biggest thing that separates superachievers from everyone else, says Camille Sweeney, co-author of The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do And How They Do It So Well, is that they have found a way to overcome failure.

“Every successful person, just like everyone else on the planet, is going to meet with failure,” says her husband and co-author Josh Gosfield. “Instead of blaming everything on employees, the weather, the state of the economy, they take a merciless clear look at their own assumptions and biases [which allows] them to revinvent themselves.”

We sat down with Sweeney and Gosfield to discuss what they learned from dozens of superachievers — from Momofuku Founder David Chang to Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh — including how to manage emotions like fear and self doubt. Watch our conversation here:

Seth Godin's 'Hierarchy Of Success' →

Simple. Basic. And Practical Advice - Scott

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Marketing genius Seth Godin is constantly brimming with career and life advice.

One of his strengths is pointing out that both are interchangeable: the universal truths that inform our “real lives” apply to our professional selves, and vice versa. You cannot be two people at once — or at least, it won’t last that long before you’re found out.

While looking through his blog, we came across this great post on the “Hierarchy Of Success.”

Godin says it looks like this:

1. Attitude, 2. Approach, 3. Goals, 4. Strategy, 5. Tactics, 6. Execution

Most people spend too much time on the execution, without rethinking their strategies and tactics, he says:

“Big news: No one ever succeeded because of execution tactics learned from a Dummies book.

Tactics tell you what to execute. They’re important, but dwarfed by strategy. Strategy determines which tactics might work.

But what’s the point of a strategy if your goals aren’t clear, or contradict?

Which leads to the first two, the two we almost never hear about.

Approach determines how you look at the project (or your career). … As far as I’m concerned, the most important of all, the top of the hierarchy is attitude.”

The marketing guru says asking all the right questions from the beginning is crucial. For example, “When will you quit?” and “What sort of decisions do you make when no one is looking?”

The answer to those questions will help you know if what you’re doing is even worth pursuing at all.