Your career is not “set it and forget it”
In fact, it’s…
Your career is not “set it and forget it.”
Your career is a long series of experiments.
In some ways, this is annoying.
You have to keep stepping back and assessing where you are.
You have to keep problem-solving and figuring out the next step.
You’re never “done.”
There’s always something to be figured out.
You can’t just put in a bunch of work upfront and then hit cruise control for 30 years.
In other ways, this is freeing.
Each decision is lower stakes.
You’re not locking it in forever. It’s just the next experiment.
You’re either winning or you’re learning.
You might try something you think you’ll love, and prove the hypothesis to be true…
Or you might try something you think you’ll love, and prove the hypothesis to be FALSE…
But proving a hypothesis false is as valuable as proving it true.
There’s no such thing as a mistake or misstep because the learnings are as valuable as the wins (often more so).
It’s never game-over.
Even if you’ve just had the most catastrophic career moment ever…
Are you still alive?
Then it’s not yet game-over.
You’ve just gotten the biggest learning ever.
And its whole purpose was just to set you up for the next step.
So take a deep breath.
Drop your shoulders.
Relax your jaw.
Close your computer and take a break.
The stakes are so much lower than you think.
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