Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.
I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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