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3 Avoidable Mistakes Guaranteed to Derail Your Career
There’s such a wide-open space of careers that you can pretty much do anything you want with your life.
But you won’t have the career you want if you make the same mistake I see people make over and over again.
And it doesn’t matter what you do. I’ve seen passionate people and people who made this major mistake in almost every field.
The mistake isn’t failing to reach some perfect magical fairytale career either.
You don’t need to find the ultimate passion to have a successful career. But, not only do most people fall short of this type of career, they fall into a pit that keeps them stuck for the rest of their lives.
So what’s the mistake?
Well, there are a few different variations of the same mistake. Let’s break each down one by one.
Avoid Following the Wrong Path For the Wrong Reason
“Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.” — Naval Ravikant
I tell people who want to write for a living all the time that, from an efficiency…
