Warren buffett if you don t find a way1/17/2024 ![]() The common theme when it came to career advice? They loved what they did. I’ve read too many biographies about people who came from nothing and turned themselves into a success by hard work and determination. But similarly to the stories that you can become good at something you don’t love, I also don’t believe that talent is the determining factor. Why? You could give me a crappy story about talent and all. Not to forget that this all happened in the 1930s in America a tough period to live in, especially if you were not white.Īnd yet, Ella Fitzgerald grew up to become the Queen of Jazz, won 14 Grammy awards, and is widely recognized as one of the best (if not the best) jazz singers of all time. Here’s a woman who lost her mother at age 15, didn’t have a stable home after that, was put into an orphanage, was sent away, and finally was homeless for a time. But I even look up to Ella Fitzgerald more than those guys. Ella Fitzgerald-with love and inspiration, you can never go wrong.īuffett and Jobs are great. ![]() Because anything other than enjoyment is a pure waste of life. And whoever said you can’t enjoy hard work? Work that matters is never easy. How on earth can you argue with that? And like the Buffett quote, what Jobs says is extremely practical. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. His quote is widely used, but there are still a lot of people who ignore it. Steve Jobs-work is a large part of your life.Īnother person who gives credible career advice is Steve Jobs. It’s a trick that Benjamin Franklin also used. In other words: Study people who you admire and make their good habits your own. Buffett argues that the qualities that we admire about people are all things that we can master ourselves with a little practice. And write down what qualities turn you off in that person. ![]() He also recommends looking at people you least admire. And then write down why you admire those people. Just ask anyone who has ever visited the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting.Īnother piece of career advice that Buffett gives is to simply look at people you admire. To me, Warren Buffett is not a success because he’s a billionaire, but because he truly enjoys what he does. Says who? There are no guarantees in life. We believe that going through a job or a degree that you hate, will give you a better life in the future. The most important part is to do things now, not later. That’s from “Buffett and Gates on Success”. I always worry about people who say ‘I’m going to do this for 10 years’ and ‘I’m going to do 10 more years of this.’ That’s a little like saving sex for your old age. You ought to be happy where you are working. “Go to work for an organization or people you admire. He’s a man that goes “tap-dancing” to work. But one thing that a lot of people don’t know is that Buffett is a very jolly guy. Honestly, the man doesn’t need an introduction. In this article, I highlight only three of those people. Not when they became experts or successes. I’ve read a lot about people I admire and all of them loved what they did when they started. The real reason I believe in the ‘do what you love’ advice is straightforward. If you say that kind of stuff, you’re either completely out of touch with reality, or you think you’re funny (but you’re not).Īnyway, enough bashing from my side. They think they’re comedians, and say shit like, “do what you love? I love to eat Oreos all day and watch Netflix. There’s another group of people that tries to make fun of the ‘do what you love’ movement. Also, one of my mentors is 71, even he says people who say that kind of stuff are pessimists. For the most part, the world has evolved. And that in the ‘good old days’ people would just work and not complain. They pretend that people are soft these days. Work is not supposed to be fun.” That makes me laugh. They say shit like, “you don’t have a choice shut up and do your work. How can you spend 10.000 hours doing what you hate?Īlso, some critics of the ‘do what you love’ idea are straight-up pessimists. The whole argument is that you should become good at what you do, and ultimately you will learn to love your work because you’re good at it.īut here’s the thing: Let’s say it takes 10.000 hours to master your job/skill. Recently I’ve been hearing and reading a lot of career advice from people who try to bash the whole ‘do what you love’ idea.Īnd because I’m curious, I’ve spent some time reading and listening to what they have to say (just google ‘do what you love is bad advice’).
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