Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode

here in 78 with Josh Kaufman.

Josh is talking about exploring uncertainty advancing into new

territory how it's done well.

So you'll learn one, the PICS formula for assessing your goals, two, the

five parts of every business mental model, and three,

how and why to pre-commit to learning a new skill.

So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes, the transcript, or the links to Adams we've referenced,

you'll find it over at awesome at your job

dot com slash epp 378 and while at awesome at your job

dot com I hope you check out some of our nifty resources including the gold nugget

email list which summarizes the wisdom from Josh and the guests who've come before him and

those after in an email you can read in just a couple minutes that's called the

gold nuggets over at awesome at your job.com now here's Josh's story Josh Coffman's research focuses on business, skill acquisition, productivity,

creativity, applied psychology, and practical wisdom.

His unique multidisciplinary approach to business mastery and rapid skill acquisition has helped

to millions of readers around the world learn essential concepts and skills on their own terms.

Josh's research has been featured by the New York Times, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal, Time,

Business Week, Wired, Fast Company, Financial Times,

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