Three better ways to figure out the answer the question “what do you want to do?”
Stop asking 'what do you want to do?' Instead, assess your skills, define success on your terms, and reframe what risk really means.
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Career Mental Model #2: Thinking about the “how” instead of the “what”
Stop chasing the next job title and start asking how you want to work, interact with people, and spend your time. The 'how' matters more than the 'what.'
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Career Mental Model #1: Price your time at $1,000,000 an hour
If you valued your personal time at $1,000,000 an hour, would you still chase that promotion? A mental model for protecting what matters.
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Planning a Career is Insane — Here is a better approach
The job I have now didn't exist when I graduated. Instead of planning a career, try managing your energy and experimenting.
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The Skills That Matter In Today’s Working World
The fastest-growing jobs require social skills and math skills together. Schools aren't teaching either well enough.
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Getting rejected and then landing my dream job at McKinsey & Company
In 2006, Paul applied to over 100 consulting firms, determined to break into the strategy consulting industry. He got rejected from every one...
Personal Reflections & Essays
Beware of the Default Path
People limit their careers to the obvious next step because recruiters and hiring norms reinforce it. The default path fallacy is holding back enormous human potential.
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So You’re Getting an MBA… Now What?
Four lessons from my MIT Sloan MBA that actually mattered: none of them involve your finance grade or GPA.
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The Career Transition Playbook
This 10-step career transition playbook is a set of exercises, tools and tips needed to make a massive transformation in your career to land your dream job
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Should you go to business school?
Six reasons to go to business school and one big caveat: it won't help you figure out what you want to do with your life.
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Finding my passion — my journey to unlock my purpose
I got rejected from 100+ consulting firms before landing at McKinsey. Finding my passion meant years of learning who I actually am.
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