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We can all benefit from learning from experience, be it at home or be it at work. It is up to us to internalize those lessons and use them to grow.
Here are 5 important career lessons that everyone must learn, and implement.
Career lessons: recovery from failure
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It’s not just likely, it’s necessary to fail before you succeed! Failure teaches you so many things. It’s up to us to take those lessons and use our learnings. Own your failures, and they will be the stepping stones to our success. Every great entrepreneur has stories of failure before their success.
Career lessons: values
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Great companies are built upon great values. Let your values govern your career decisions, be great.
Career lessons: be happy
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Define what success looks like to you, and aim for that. Don’t go after someone else’s definition. Success looks different to different people! But mainly, success is about doing something that makes you happy.
Career lessons: you can always learn, at any point
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From books, from experiences, from people, from mistakes, from life. We all hear this, we all agree it’s important. But really practicing it takes conscious effort.
Career lessons: be different
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Early on in your career, it’s important to conform, to put your head down and work hard, and to learn from those who have been around longer than you have. But at some point in your career, it’s not only useful to break convention, it’s almost essential for success. The non-conformers, the out-of-the-box thinkers, those are the ones who are great visionaries and great leaders. They are the most successful problem solvers because they are able to see solutions that others don’t even imagine.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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