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The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right by Gorick Ng
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- when taking on a new assignment, understand the broader objective, what success looks like, and how your work fits into the bigger picture
- Found all your questions and ask your coworker first, sure what do you have done, say what you know, and what you don't know
- Think like an owner. Imagine that you own the entire project and don't have anyone to go to for help, what would do you do to solve the problem.
- Before the meeting, think about what might be asked, and have answers ready.
- If the worst-case scenario is that the other person says no, your fear is really a fear of judgment, not a fear of danger. Leave it to other people to tell you no . Don't limit yourself before you given yourself a chance
- The future self would always have an answer. Work backward from the end goal, imagine how you will look back at your work experience on your last day what will you want to have done?
- See the big picture. Behind every task is a goal, if you ask to buy a cake, the task may be buy a cake, but the goal is broader than that. maybe the cake is for a coworker's birthday… to understand the broader goal, consider asking questions like, what is this for? What is the broader objective? What does success look like? Or who is the audience?
- If you see something failed twice, don't make it fail the third time. To identify the root cause, ask "why is this happening?" Then, keep asking why? until you uncover the underlying cause.
- About the 'perfect' work, the combination of interesting work, good people, good lifestyle won't be achieved in every job, it's to figure out which is more important to you at diff stage of your life
- School versus work. The difference between school and work: school is a conveyor belt, if you keep passing your classes, you keep going forward. Work is a wild expectation, where are you go and how quickly you get there it's up to you.
- Found all your questions and ask your coworker first, sure what do you have done, say what you know, and what you don't know
- Think like an owner. Imagine that you own the entire project and don't have anyone to go to for help, what would do you do to solve the problem.
- Before the meeting, think about what might be asked, and have answers ready.
- If the worst-case scenario is that the other person says no, your fear is really a fear of judgment, not a fear of danger. Leave it to other people to tell you no . Don't limit yourself before you given yourself a chance
- The future self would always have an answer. Work backward from the end goal, imagine how you will look back at your work experience on your last day what will you want to have done?
- See the big picture. Behind every task is a goal, if you ask to buy a cake, the task may be buy a cake, but the goal is broader than that. maybe the cake is for a coworker's birthday… to understand the broader goal, consider asking questions like, what is this for? What is the broader objective? What does success look like? Or who is the audience?
- If you see something failed twice, don't make it fail the third time. To identify the root cause, ask "why is this happening?" Then, keep asking why? until you uncover the underlying cause.
- About the 'perfect' work, the combination of interesting work, good people, good lifestyle won't be achieved in every job, it's to figure out which is more important to you at diff stage of your life
- School versus work. The difference between school and work: school is a conveyor belt, if you keep passing your classes, you keep going forward. Work is a wild expectation, where are you go and how quickly you get there it's up to you.