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"What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the 'real world’?”
This is what @tferriss asked the world’s experts in his book "Tribe of Mentors”.
Here are some of the most impactful answers...
This is what @tferriss asked the world’s experts in his book "Tribe of Mentors”.
Here are some of the most impactful answers...
Take risks now.
This is the time to step outside of your comfort zone. Who cares if it fails? You can always go back to the safe route.
You have nothing to lose, everything to gain.
- @mlevchin
This is the time to step outside of your comfort zone. Who cares if it fails? You can always go back to the safe route.
You have nothing to lose, everything to gain.
- @mlevchin
Ignore advice from people who say they know what the future will look like. No one knows.
Everyone has a lot to learn, and it takes a lifetime.
Question the advice you receive, and use it as a way to make up your own mind.
- @AnnaHolmes
Everyone has a lot to learn, and it takes a lifetime.
Question the advice you receive, and use it as a way to make up your own mind.
- @AnnaHolmes
Life moves fast.
Avoid living a life intended to impress others. Focus on offering your "gifts" to the world.
Show yourself the same kindness you aspire to show others.
- @m2jr
Avoid living a life intended to impress others. Focus on offering your "gifts" to the world.
Show yourself the same kindness you aspire to show others.
- @m2jr
Make sure you're looking forward to something everyday. It could be your job, a basketball game, a date.
It'll keep you hungry to create more of these moments.
- @SomanChainani
It'll keep you hungry to create more of these moments.
- @SomanChainani
Embrace the suck.
Your first job might stink and your living conditions won't necessarily be ideal. But, enjoy these years; they'll make you more self-sufficient faster.
Experience > Security.
- @pattonoswalt
Your first job might stink and your living conditions won't necessarily be ideal. But, enjoy these years; they'll make you more self-sufficient faster.
Experience > Security.
- @pattonoswalt
Follow your intellectual curiosity.
Ignore the news, complainers, high-conflict people. Anyone who is trying to scare you about things that aren’t clear or present.
Ignore unfairness. People are highly consistent, so everyone will eventually get what they deserve.
- @naval
Ignore the news, complainers, high-conflict people. Anyone who is trying to scare you about things that aren’t clear or present.
Ignore unfairness. People are highly consistent, so everyone will eventually get what they deserve.
- @naval
Start giving as soon as you enter the real world.
Charitable giving is as much as a habit as it is a conscious act.
A personal commitment to charitable giving will provide tremendous meaning in life.
- @annimaniac
Charitable giving is as much as a habit as it is a conscious act.
A personal commitment to charitable giving will provide tremendous meaning in life.
- @annimaniac
Macro patience, micro speed.
Be patient in terms of years and decades. Be sporadic on a day-to-day basis.
Don't waste your days worrying about years.
It's going to work out.
- @garyvee
Be patient in terms of years and decades. Be sporadic on a day-to-day basis.
Don't waste your days worrying about years.
It's going to work out.
- @garyvee
Don't try to find your passion.
Focus on mastering a skill, interest, or knowledge that others find useful.
You'll be rewarded with new opportunities where you can optimize towards things you like.
Eventually, you'll arrive at your passion.
- @kevin2kelly
Focus on mastering a skill, interest, or knowledge that others find useful.
You'll be rewarded with new opportunities where you can optimize towards things you like.
Eventually, you'll arrive at your passion.
- @kevin2kelly
Don't worry that much about your first job.
Just start, and keep learning.
Keeping all your options open will leave you with nothing but options.
Start.
- @jnovogratz
Just start, and keep learning.
Keeping all your options open will leave you with nothing but options.
Start.
- @jnovogratz
Keeping your options open can lead to self-deception.
Many of the individuals who took jobs at Goldman Sachs or McKinsey "for a few years" before they pursue their real passion are still in banking and consulting.
At some point, the hedging has to stop.
- @lindarottenberg
Many of the individuals who took jobs at Goldman Sachs or McKinsey "for a few years" before they pursue their real passion are still in banking and consulting.
At some point, the hedging has to stop.
- @lindarottenberg
Don't worry about what you're going to do for the rest of your life.
Find an interesting and profitable use for the next 3-5 years.
- @SamHarrisOrg
Find an interesting and profitable use for the next 3-5 years.
- @SamHarrisOrg
Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.
You will make a much better impression if it seems like you're not worried about yourself...even if you actually are.
If you ask for less, you will often get more.
- @ev
You will make a much better impression if it seems like you're not worried about yourself...even if you actually are.
If you ask for less, you will often get more.
- @ev
Pick your early jobs based on what gets you the most valuable experience.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, go get paid to learn the ropes at an early-stage startup instead of diving directly into your own venture.
- @bramcohen
If you want to be an entrepreneur, go get paid to learn the ropes at an early-stage startup instead of diving directly into your own venture.
- @bramcohen
Every step in your career must get you closer to whatever genuinely interests you.
Pursue relationships, projects, and experiences that get you closer to your interests.
Optimize your opportunities based on the quality of the people you will work with.
- @scottbelsky
Pursue relationships, projects, and experiences that get you closer to your interests.
Optimize your opportunities based on the quality of the people you will work with.
- @scottbelsky
Most of what you learn in school will become irrelevant by the time you're 40 years old.
Change is stressful, and technology is only expediting change.
Learn to be extremely resilient and emotionally intelligent to sail through this never-ending storm.
- @harari_yuval
Change is stressful, and technology is only expediting change.
Learn to be extremely resilient and emotionally intelligent to sail through this never-ending storm.
- @harari_yuval
To summarize:
• You don't need to have everything figured out.
• Optimize experiences with great people.
• Think about how you will help others.
• Don't strive for validation.
• Take all the advice you get with a grain of salt. No one knows the future.
• You don't need to have everything figured out.
• Optimize experiences with great people.
• Think about how you will help others.
• Don't strive for validation.
• Take all the advice you get with a grain of salt. No one knows the future.
There's a lot of other great advice in @tferriss's book, "Tribe of Mentors".
Highly recommend (especially to all my fellow '21 college grads
).
Highly recommend (especially to all my fellow '21 college grads
).