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Early in your career you prove yourself through long hours and hard tasks. Later you shift to improving how you work. The real question: are you staying late to prove something, or to actually get better?
Early in your career you prove yourself through long hours and hard tasks. Later you shift to improving how you work. The real question: are you staying late to prove something, or to actually get better?
I want to talk about proving versus improving. So early in my career, I was obsessed with proving myself, right? I worked long hours. I took all the difficult tasks that I could. I made sure that everybody knew what I was doing and how I was doing it to prove myself. Later in my career, I started focusing on improving myself. So thinking about how I could do what I did better for my sake and do more of it or do less of it, whichever the case may be. And so thinking about finding a balance early on in your career between proving yourself to the outside world, because you kind of have to in some degree, and improving yourself, that you get better at what you do within you for your own sake. I think that's a very healthy path to, to Well, a healthy and production— productive work life. So think about that the next time you're sitting at the office at late hours. Is that really proving yourself or is that improving yourself?
