Pedro Talaia: My Only Career Plan
My career is like many: I’ve gone to the University and studied something unrelated to my actual career path 😅
After finishing my BA I was ready to face the world. Grabbed my backpack left home and went to catch 'em all!
Soon I’ve realized this was not the right path and since then, I’ve challenged myself to learn as much as I could in any possible way. The first challenge was organizing a TEDx event and oh boy, this was the start of everything!
Since that moment, I’ve come to realize that to be a successful self-learner there are three things extremely important:
1. Focus
2. Writing
3. Trying
Before going step-by-step, everyone can think that going online and trying to find some content on a subject is easy, but finding significant content that is validated by peers is not.
This is where Zest comes to the action!
It justs presents curated content that is validated by peers.
Since then, everything is a constant learning hockey stick curve with an infinite end.
Try it here: https://zest.is/enlight 😉
After TEDxBraga, I’ve worked through the do’s and don’ts in Marketing, as SEO & Social Media Specialist in a Startup, as a Startup Hub Communications and Events Manager, a Marketing Manager for a Coworking & Marketing School and as Marketing Manager in an international technology company.
But what exactly is Focus, Writing and Trying, imo?
1. Focus
I’ve had so many things in my to-do list that I was losing track of everything. I wanted to learn more about every topic but I couldn’t read all subjects at once. My lesson one was: “Focus is key to trim down all unnecessary noise.”
As a self-learner, I’ve always added the challenge of finding good, reliable content, and according to Netcraft, the Internet has 625 million active websites.
2. Write
When learning something, I just write it down. It helps to memorize better and to it makes us think on the structure of what we are putting into paper.
It’s also good because at the speed that I was typing, I could easily be the Typeracer champ.
3. Try, try, try
After learning a concept, it’s good to practice it. Like someone said: “Practice makes perfect”.
So just try it.
Break things, and learn.
I dunno what the future holds, but using Zest is one of the things that I will keep on doing it!
