Month: August 2018

August 24, 2018

Greg Thomas

What do I have to do to get Better?

People ask this question all the time. What their real question is – “How do I get better than everyone else quicker?” Sure, there probably is. Maybe you could stay up late and put in a lot of extra hours, spend more time at the gym then you normally do find some lifehacks here and there. But you know all that and you know all that better than anyone else. The real question you need to be asking yourself is – “Why am not trying to get better?”. Now that’s the starting point.

August 22, 2018

Greg Thomas

Learn from Others

The best way to learn is to learn from others. Learn what they have done to become successful. Watch what they do (and stop talking about it). Don’t share the fact that you’re learning from them. Listen to what has and has not worked. And then, ask questions, get feedback on your approach, what are you doing that works and what are you doing that is not. Or, keep doing what you’re doing and hope you figure it out at some point.  You probably will… at some point… or you might never… all you had to do was ask.

August 21, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Secret Question

I love the secret questions. I love knowing when they are coming. When someone asks you something that is not related to the conversation at hand, is completely off-topic and is geared towards ascertaining one and only one thing. Do you know your stuff? The problem with the secret question is that the candidate knows it for what it is – everything you’ve spent the last hour or so talking about is fluff and this is really what you want and/or need.  At that moment they will decide how they will answer – with a question, with the answer or

August 20, 2018

Greg Thomas

I Built a Frankenstein

And so should you. If you’ve never built a Frankenstein, you’ve never had to solve a problem that forced you to use all of your skills and knowledge in a particular area. You never had that moment of going – “well it doesn’t look like much, but it works”. Frankesteins get built when everyone around you goes – “can’t be done, this is impossible, it won’t work” – and then you do it. Build a Frankenstein, proudly proclaim it for what it is and then start the next one – even bigger than before.

August 17, 2018

Greg Thomas

Nothing is Ready

There is a strong probability that things will not be ready for you at that new contract, job, internship, event, etc. And they will ask you to wait. Don’t. Before starting, have a plan that assumes the worst, that nothing is available, that all you have is a notebook, and start from there. And don’t think you’re doing this to show everyone how good you are or how keen you are. You’re not. You’re doing this because you’re not going to lose a day doing nothing when you could have been creating something.

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