YOUR FUTURE
Focus on these Five Areas to Maintain Your Relevance in the Future
Hint: Your value isn’t in what you DO
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10 min readFeb 5, 2019
We often get hung up on job titles, responsibilities, and the tasks we perform in our daily work. We get so focused on what we do. For example, I have friends who would define their primary profession as one of the following:
- Designing websites
- Repairing car engines
- Developing mobile apps
- Installing electrical panels
- Selling real estate
- Flying private jets
- Coaching fitness clients
Sadly, this becomes a focus for performance and success metrics too.
- How fast can you design?
- How cheaply can you repair this thing?
- How many lines of code were written?
- Did you turn around the spec in less than a week?
- Are you more affordable than this other professional?
Sam Altman, the president of Y Combinator, wrote a great blog post recently about how to be successful. If you care about your career, I encourage you to check it out.
