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The 9 Things That Secretly Destroy Your Career
3 min readOct 22, 2022
- Not Actually Working — A UK study found that the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 23 minutes out of an 8 hour workday. No wonder the average worker struggles with their job. (Source: Survey Reveals Employee Productivity Averages 2 Hours and 23 Minutes a Day)
- Expecting To Randomly Stumble Upon The Answers — Most people go through their careers expecting to be fulfilled along the way without ever thinking about what would fulfill them. This sets an unrealistic expectation that will never be fulfilled and always leave the person disappointed. The world does not know what you want. You have to be the one that goes and gets it.
- Staying Fixated On Problems That Do Not Matter — It doesn’t matter whether your end product will be available in 2 colors or 3, what matters is that it works well! Focus on what matters in the end and work on that first.
- Holding Grudges — Not only does this reduce the amount of energy you have for work, it also makes the company less likely to succeed because of your grudge. Remember that everyone in the company wants the company to succeed. When it does, you make more and succeed more. You are all pulling the same rope. Fighting each other only means you have more of a chance to fail.
- Not Investing In Growth — “Better safe than sorry” makes sense when…
