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Four essential questions used to screen out B and C players during an introductory interview process:
1) What are your career goals?
2) What are you really good at professionally?
3) What are you not so good at or not interested in doing professionally?
4) Who were your last 5 bosses and how will they rate your performance on a 1-5 scale when we talk to them? – Geoff Smart and Randy Street
What should I do with my life” is a terrible question. Excellence is the next five minutes. Improvement is the next five minutes. Happiness is the next five minutes. This doesn’t mean you ignore planning, just remember that big beyond belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each bit one step at a time. – Tim Ferriss
Most large problems in society are not solved by the public, but instead by the private sector. So the question is how to motivate corporate America to take action on income inequality? Perhaps if the government incentivizes businesses to pay a living wage in a manner that directly correlates to the reduction of corporate taxes owed might get the ball rolling. – Dad
Birds don’t learn to fly by staying in the nest and neither do kids. Get out there and make mistakes. Have accidents. Scrape your knee. Get your feelings hurt. Face rejection. It’s these experiences that give context to your achievements and why when you win they feel so special. – Dad
