Table of Contents
The Work
The Cost of Cluelessness
Hierarchy of Success
Stage 0: The Basics
Stage 1: Show Up to Work on Time and Do Well
Show Up to Work on Time
Challenge: Mental Blocks
Challenge: You’re Just Not a Timely Person
Challenge: Reliable Transportation
Do Well
Challenge: The Gap
Challenge: Practice Does Not Make Perfect
Stage 2: Become Proficient, Develop Understanding
Proficiency
Challenge: Teaching Yourself
Challenge: Proficiency doesn’t mean you’re ready for the Big Leagues
Challenge: Making Mistakes
Develop Understanding
Challenge: Understand How Your Position Makes Money
Challenge: You Can’t Know What You Haven’t Experienced
Challenge: Learn What You’re Bad At
Challenge: Being Smart is Overrated
Stage 3: Build Relationships, Be Indispensable
Build Relationships
Challenge: Use LinkedIn
Challenge: Zero Charisma
Challenge: The Unlikeables
Be Indispensable
Challenge: Align your Values with your Work
Challenge: Stay Close to the Revenue Stream
Challenge: Find Indispensable People
Challenge: Don’t be a Victim
Stage 4: Read the Room and Take Ownership
Take Ownership
Challenge: Becoming an Owner
Challenge: You Might Not be a Good Owner
Read the Room
Challenge: When others are Poor Contributors
Challenge: Communicating Directly
Challenge: When you’re the Poor Contributor
Challenge: The Jerk in your Head
Stage 5: Take Control, get Rich and Change the World
Take Control
Challenge: Control your Calendar
Challenge: Pay Attention
Challenge: Let’s get Uncomfortable
Challenge: Know your Biases
Challenge: Know What the Heck you’re Doing
Challenge: Know What the Heck you’re not Doing
Get Rich
Challenge: Everything you do Costs Something
Challenge: Competition and Status Anxiety
Change the World
Challenge: Don’t Go Back to School
Challenge: The Odds are Against You
Challenge: Create the Team you need for the Future
Challenge: Rebuilding Skills
The Journey
Thinking 6, 12, 18, and 24 Months Out
Nth-Order Consequences
Reminder: You Can’t Predict the Future
Challenge: Catastrophe
Assessing Your Success or Failure
Challenge: Hindsight is 20/20
You Don’t Know What You’re Going Through
Everything in the World is Negotiable
Interview Recreationally
Know What you Want
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
No One Has All the Answers
Get What You Want
Say What You Want
Challenge: Don’t Become a Jargonaut
Pursue Excellence
Too Much Information is Bad for You
The World Isn’t Like You
Acceptance and Commitment (Room Meditation)
Be Part of a Culture that Aligns with Your Values
Distancing Language/You are Not Your Feelings
Want What You Have
Don’t Be So Serious
Allow Life to get Easier
Give Yourself a Break
Divide Your Time Naturally
Stay Humble
Outro
The Final Summary
Reference Materials
Books
Websites and Internet Search Keywords