Three traits guarantee employability: humility, hunger, and smartness. Humility means caring less about your reputation and more about helping others. Without it, the other two traits fall apart.
If you have these 3 traits combined, you are guaranteed to get any job over the long term. So Mr. Warren Buffett over there likes to say that he looks for people that have intelligence, integrity, and energy. Said differently, looking for people that are humble, hungry, and smart. This comes from the book The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni. And so when you think about it, when you're looking for someone that's hungry, yes, you want them to work hard. That's the first one. Smart means emotional intelligence. It also means just general work intelligence. You kind of have to have both combined together. So you're humble and then you're hungry. So the humbleness, let's talk about that one real quick. Even if you have intelligence, let's say you have the hungry piece, you have the smart piece, if you don't have the humbleness, the other 2 don't matter. Because humbleness is actually worrying less about what others think about you, and it's more about helping other people. And humble people generally are not gonna lie, cheat, or steal. So...
