Quoting Nikhyl Singhal
Fill your calendar with things you enjoy.#
If you put green, yellow, and red next to the meetings you had and did that for a week and then we looked at the color chart, I’ll bet you the vast majority of PMs that are in a product organization, they show mostly yellow and red.
And I’m telling you, the ones that are moving into more of this build mode, it’s mostly green and yellow.
Disappoint everyone equally.#
Your goal when you’re in your power years is to equally disappoint everyone in your life, which sounds like a horrible statement, but it’s true. You have six hours to give, eight hours to give, 12 hours to give, and you have 20 hours of demand. What is your prioritization mechanism?
I am going to equally disappoint everyone, not disappoint one group. My parents will not be more disappointed than my kids, than my health, than my family, than my friends, than my partner, than my work, than my retirement account. That’s essentially what your mindset is. It’s I need to equally disappoint everyone.
Find your skip opportunity.#
They all kind of come down to this word called the skip. And I chose that word because the best career advice is always not thinking about the next move, but the move after. What’s the skip job? What’s the skip opportunity? Well, in this world, it’s not about what’s an opportunity now and what’s the journey.
It’s about making sure that your skip opportunity is saved and you are able to get that high salary, you’re able to get one of those premier builder jobs, and that’s the world that you have to have and the mindset you have to have.