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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

36: How To Work

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- There's one thing no one tells you about your career: how to work. So, this week on Seeking Wisdom we're going to talk about how to work. We talk about how to run your 1:1's, managing up, and the importance of proactively communicating and showing your work. You could call this Carry The Water Pt. 2 (Episode 19; go back and listen). Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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0:00.0

Boop, whoop, that's the sound of the police.

0:12.8

You're in, I wish people could see you.

0:14.4

You're in your travel gear.

0:15.7

I'm all sweatsuited up.

0:16.9

You're catching a 9 p.m. flight to Dublin, so you're in the sweatsuit.

0:20.8

So today, on Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about how to work.

0:26.2

Show me.

0:27.7

The money.

0:28.6

Let's go.

0:29.1

I want you to tell the back story.

0:31.8

We were having a conversation at lunch the other day about how to work.

0:37.5

And this is something that you've seen, like like over, you've seen this over the years.

0:41.0

This could be almost like a little follow up to carry the water.

0:44.3

But this is one of those things that like you don't, you don't really, you have to learn it.

0:49.6

And it's also one of those things in your career that is so important, but nobody ever

0:53.3

tells you that it's so important, how you actually work. work and how come why do you know how to do it because uh this how

1:00.8

i started working i had a the first boss that i had yeah uh at the time he drove me insane and he always

1:07.7

wanted to review every email and and highlight this and uh every time i'd write

1:12.9

something this was before people use google docs just microsoft word yep every email i got from

1:19.2

this guy would be like feedback and track changes that's good so it's feedback driven yeah

1:25.3

did you do it for forever or was no no no it was a, you know, a couple months, right? Yep. As I was, you know, I was young, 23. And I didn't know anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, I'm still young. But I mean, this was like the first job I ever had. And, you know, at first it was hard because you get this thing back and it's

1:45.6

just bleeding red, right? I spend time writing this thing and it's just blood read all comments.

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