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Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. I was perfectly on track. But it turned out in retrospect that my biggest problem was taking the track without thinking really hard about where it was going. Some of you may be considering graduate school simply because you have no idea what the hell you want to do with your life.

Figuring out what you're good at and what you enjoy doing is. There will always be assholes in the workplace, which is why Tina Fey's quote is so important. You don't want jerks to get away with holding you back, but you also don't want them to make you miserable. What a quandary, right? If you're neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. At work, you'll inevitably notice a lot of "yes men. They don't ruffle feathers.

And they never speak up -- even when they know something a superior is doing is wrong and hurting the business. Please don't ever be one of these people, who either doesn't speak up or doesn't support someone who does speak up, when you know they're actually right. But there's safety in numbers. Your voice can make a difference. You may not believe him now, but Tony Robbins is right when he says this.

You'll soon find out when you graduate with no experience under your belt and can't land a job after college. Get as much proven experience as fast as possible. A hiring manager won't care that your GPA was a 4. As a dropout , who now has nearly seven years of professional experience, I know this to be true. Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant. There are going to be people who believe in you and those who won't. When you find a mentor or a boss or even a friend -- anyone who believes for you, sticks up for you, gives you a job or a reference when you're inexperienced -- TLDR: Don't make them regret it.

They took a chance on you, so you owe them your everything to be a success.


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At the time, he felt pretty alone, so he focused all of his energy into basketball. Still to this day, he pretty much is alone, he admits.

But, today, he's at peace with his life and happy. When you're younger, life is all about fitting in, but when you're older, life is all about standing out. Standing out is how you land jobs, how you get paid more and how you make it to the top. So don't steer away from standing out.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. I remember my first eBook, my first email campaign, and my first blog post, unfortunately. It's unfortunate because they all sucked.

But here I am seven years later successfully doing these things without wanting to cry every time I do. You have to be persistent. Great athletes don't become great players overnight. They keep going back to the court or the field. Because they love what they do. You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. I wasted two years of my life pursuing business school, regardless of the fact that I sucked and despised at math. Business classes were all math all the time, and it made me delay doing my passion -- writing.

One day, I remember calling my father crying. I told him I couldn't take it anymore. I needed to study something I was good at -- writing. I was told him I thought I wanted to apply to journalism school. I'll never forget what he said to me:. How many of you enrolled in a major that you're not good at or don't enjoy? Take a moment to figure out where you are excelling in life, and think about giving that an honest try. You have to be odd to be No. I saved the best for last: It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.

52 Motivational Quotes For Students Who Need Inspiration

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. It takes time to find the perfect career if there is such a thing. You have to take on less exciting gigs before you make it to Oz. Keep testing different career paths and skill sets by freelancing. Hack freelancing until you know what it is that you want out of a career, which may not turn out to be an actual full-time, in-office gig. Be a unicorn in a field of horses. Try to live everyday like Elle Woods after Warner told her she wasn't smart enough for law school.

For the weirdos who haven't seen Legally Blonde and you should , Elle Woods applies and gets into Harvard after her ex-boyfriend, Warner, breaks up with her. What Elle didn't know was that Warner had dumped her for a new, "more serious" girlfriend. Just when she was about to pack up and move home, devastated, she got mad.

By the end of the movie, she had won her first real law case and graduated as valedictorian of her class. Yes, this is a movie, but it also has a little nugget of wise advice in it: That's what DJ Khaled does anyways.

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And as it turns out, so do a lot of successful people. You'd never know they're rich unless you were close to them. That's because rich people don't typically buy fancy cars -- if they even own a car.

They don't make it rain on everyone in the club. And they work a lot.

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And they save a lot -- that is, after all, how they got rich in the first place. If you have massive dreams -- like to own a football team someday -- you have to plan and save for that far, far in advance. In the words of Gary Vaynerchuk: Nobody -- unless they were a trust fund baby -- ever bought the Rams when they go skiing for a week when they're Some of you may be choosing a career you're not excited about -- in fact, a lot of you may be. Whether you're trying to please your parents or trying to keep a steady paycheck, remember that nothing in life is guaranteed.

You can work at the same job for 49 years, and one day, they could just fire you; give you one week of severance pay, and send you on your way. They may not even want to. Maybe the company got acquired or the company is not making enough money and needs to cut staff. In life, you just never really know so take a logical chance on something you actually enjoy doing. I definitely plan to work less than 40 hours a week during retirement. Do people really only work 40 hours per week or less?

That's a question that sends Financial Samurai into a rant that I can't help but agree with. It's a great article.

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The only way to get a promotion is to do your job well for a consistent period of time. Wash, rinse and repeat. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you.


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Don't settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. You did not wake up to mediocre. I urge each and every one of you to seek out projects that leave the world a better place than you found it. We used to design ways to get to the moon; now we design ways to never have to get out of bed. You have the power to change that. Profit is the reward for correctly understanding an aspect of reality ahead of your peers.

No matter which career you choose, in today's overly competitive market, you have to be a serial learner. Serial learners are naturally curious. They're great at Google. And they find blogs and influencers to follow and read on the reg.