Omar ZenhomAward Winning Entrepreneur. Founder of The $100 MBA & WebinarNinja.

Work Harder On Yourself Than Your Job

12 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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A short motivational YouTube monologue by Omar Zenhom advising listeners to invest more effort in personal development than in any single job. The speaker argues that building skills (reading, learning, gaining abilities) increases long-term career resilience and allows reinvestment into career opportunities, whereas working only on a fragile job is like building on quicksand.

Work harder on yourself than your job. Because if you build your own value, if you get better and better, if you get smarter, if you read more books, if you pick up more skills, you're able to reinvest in your career with those skills in whatever you create. But if you work super hard on your job and not on yourself, what happens is that you just basically build on quicksand because that job is not guaranteed to be there all the time.