When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.
I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.
In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
I think every work is hard in different ways.
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.
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