Author:: scotthyoung.com Full Title:: If You Want to Be an Author, Don’t Start Writing Tags:#media/article Link:: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/10/07/strangely-useful-career-advice/
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* highlights from 2021-02-08
* This kind of plan is what Cal and I call a feel-productive project. It’s a plan that makes you do some work that feels productive. This helps you reduce the stress that maybe you aren’t doing enough to advance your career. But often feel-productive projects aren’t the actual steps that will take you to the next level.
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* Deeply researching and understanding how success in your field actually works.
* If you do the research properly, you can quickly eliminate low-impact, feel-productive projects from your future plans. You know they won’t work and aren’t recommended, so you won’t even get started on them.