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Exhibit A: My friend picks me up in his car, which I’ve ridden in over a dozen times. We go out, and when we head back to the parking lot, I tried opening the passenger door. Except it wasn’t his car. It wasn’t the same make or model. It wasn’t even the same color…
Luckily not being an expert about cars hasn’t impacted my life much. I may have trouble recognizing car brands on the street, and my driving skills are hardly Formula 1, but the inconvenience to my life has been almost unnoticeable. I’m okay with not being a car expert.
But there are other areas of life where not being an expert can be incredibly costly.
Your career is a perfect example. Not just being an expert in your career, but being an expert about your career. Do you deeply know the answers to the following questions?
- What’s the next step you need to take to reach the next level in your career?
- Which metrics actually matter for success and which ones don’t?
- If you only had time to master one skill, which one would allow you to advance?
Not deeply understanding your own career costs more than embarrassingly trying to open the wrong car door. It can cost you millions of dollars and years of dead-end, wasted effort.
Even if you did have some answers to the above questions, how sure are you that they were correct? Sometimes the truth about how careers actually work can be very different from how most people pursue them.
