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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

9 Career Mistakes to Avoid & 9 Habits to Grow

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The career path that we choose is influenced by a lot of factors - our mindset, goals, passion, and most especially the circumstances that surround us. We have a vision of where we want to be, but sometimes, we take a different route, we take a detour. And that’s completely okay. You can have stopovers, fill up your gas, grab a bite and quench your thirst. You can have those moments where you go astray. And you can always return to that path that will lead you to success. In this episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty shares several mistakes we unconsciously make that hinder our character growth and what we can do to correct them. Get your copy of Think Like a Monk today by clicking this link!https://thinklikeamonkbook.com/ Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Let’s focus on what we do to make money 02:20 Three classes of intelligence 04:40 Mistake #1: We build our careers around one revenue stream 08:21 Mistake #2: Being an out and out generalist 12:59 Mistake #3: Disregarding social media 16:43 Mistake #4: Complacency 19:34 Mistake #5: We celebrate for too long or we don’t celebrate at all 22:02 Mistake #6: Over reliance on one person 23:46 Mistake #7: Just watching the competition and getting disheartened 24:28 Mistake #8: Listening to what your company tells you 24:53 Mistake #9: Don’t ignore statistics but be led by your intuition Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!

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0:00.0

If you think about the most successful people in the world, I promise you they're not comfortable.

0:03.4

If you think about the healthiest people in the world, they're not comfortable.

0:06.4

Now you may say, J. Comfortable is more of an important value to me than success.

0:13.2

And I respect and accept that. But here's the thing.

0:16.5

If you try to get comfortable, then when there's uncertainty and your comfortability is disturbed,

0:22.7

you're not sure what to do.

0:31.6

Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose the number one health podcast in the world.

0:36.6

Thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and grow.

0:42.9

Now today I wanted to focus on work. I wanted to focus on careers. I wanted to focus on what you do

0:51.1

to make money because the careers that we choose, the industries we choose, the jobs that we choose

1:02.0

end up taking up a lot of our lives. We spend a lot of time at work. We spend a lot of energy at work.

1:12.4

And while I do believe I was watching an interview recently with Mark Zuckerberg, it's an older

1:17.4

interview, probably one of the earlier interviews he did. And the interviewer asked him what he wishes

1:26.4

younger entrepreneurs would avoid, what mistakes he thinks they should avoid.

1:32.0

And he gave a really interesting answer. He actually said that he believes that we shouldn't

1:38.5

avoid mistakes. We should make as many mistakes as possible because you learn so much from them.

1:43.8

But I believe that he's right. And I love that mindset because I've made a lot of mistakes to

1:50.0

and I'm really happy I made them. I do also feel though that there are different levels of mistake.

1:57.1

Like some mistakes don't cost you as much time as much money as much energy.

2:01.5

But the insight I'm about to share with you on this podcast will save you months if not years

2:07.8

of pain, effort, struggle and challenges, which can set you up to have immense growth in your life.

2:15.7

So I'm doing this because I so believe that when I learned from the Vedas, they talked about

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