{"id":2344,"date":"2011-11-13T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2018-04-04T02:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:13:59","slug":"do-what-others-wont-or-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/do-what-others-wont-or-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"Do What Others Won’t or Can’t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most career-advice today deals with matching\u2014trying to pair people\u2019s aptitudes and passions with specific jobs. So, the advice goes, if you\u2019re friendly, maybe you should go in sales. Good at math? Consider engineering or science.<\/p>\n

The matching paradigm here strikes me as too optimistically egalitarian. It somehow assumes that all jobs are equally desirable, but that they fit with different people. That\u2019s ridiculous\u2014some jobs are clearly more desirable than others. Otherwise, why wouldn\u2019t we talk about people having a \u201cpassion\u201d for stoop labor or janitorial work?<\/p>\n

Another place I often see the \u201cmatch\u201d paradigm is in relationships. We talk about soulmates, connections and finding the right chemistry. While that\u2019s also partially true, not all people are equally attractive. All else being equal, I\u2019d rather date the volunteering, med student who looks like a model, and I\u2019m guessing you would too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s considered taboo to suggest that some people are simply better than others as relationship candidates. But just because it\u2019s unfair, it doesn\u2019t make it untrue. Yes “match” matters, particularly in a competitive environment<\/a>, but let\u2019s not kid ourselves that everything and everyone were created equal.<\/p>\n

Beyond \u201cFit\u201d: Jobs in Terms of Navigating Opportunities<\/h2>\n

Some careers are simply more desirable than others, irrespective of match. I have friends that can live anywhere in the world, work on any project they choose, have ample vacation time, love their work and also have incomes in the high six-figure range. Who wouldn\u2019t want that?<\/p>\n

Because of the huge spread of general desirability of jobs (not just the specific match), even though it\u2019s important to find passionate work, it\u2019s even more important to accumulate what Cal Newport<\/a> calls \u201ccareer capital\u201d which is a measure of the power you have to gain access to more desirable work.<\/p>\n

Earning career capital seems to have two broad components:<\/p>\n

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  1. Ambition and building skill.<\/li>\n
  2. Navigating opportunities to make your career path harder to replicate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first part is fairly obvious\u2014if you have more skill or more ambition, you\u2019ll be more able to gain one of the more desirable jobs out there. This is why parents pressure their kids to get good educations in high-paying fields, because with more career capital, the better chance you have of finding a job you really like.<\/p>\n

    The problem with raw ambition and work ethic is that there will always be people who can outwork you. I consider myself an ambitious person, but I\u00c2\u00a0 know many people who outwork me. Unfortunately this effect is exacerbated as you move up the ladder and basically everyone is already trying their hardest.<\/p>\n

    That\u2019s where the second part comes in. The people I know who have the best jobs with the least stress often earned their career capital from a series of unusual opportunities. Those opportunities are hard to replicate, so the person manages to build career capital while simultaneously making it extremely hard to compete against them.<\/p>\n

    Ben Casnocha<\/a> is a perfect example. He started by taking a junior-high school computer project and turning it into a website. From that opportunity, he started his first company at 15, which led to a book deal a few years later, and finally coauthoring another book with a giant of Silicon Valley in his early twenties.<\/p>\n

    Hard work, certainly, but not exactly the traditional career path that you\u2019re taught by a guidance counselor.<\/p>\n

    Benny Lewis<\/a> has another great story. His background is in engineering, but after spending several years travelling and learning languages, he managed to become a full-time traveler, through freelance engineering translation. From there he further honed his language learning abilities until he was able to launch a business teaching his method to other people.<\/p>\n

    The power of his career capital here isn\u2019t just the effort he put in. It\u2019s also on the uniqueness of his path that would make it harder for people to replicate his expertise.<\/p>\n

    (Note: This principle of navigating opportunities to build career capital, comes from Cal Newport\u2019s book<\/a><\/strong>\"\". Don\u2019t let the title put you off, it\u2019s invaluable advice for everyone)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    How to Navigate Opportunities to Build Success<\/h2>\n

    Taking Cal\u2019s insights about career capital in mind, I\u2019ve begun to follow a manta when it comes to making decisions about my life, which is:<\/p>\n

    \u201cDo what others won\u2019t or can\u2019t do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

    Doing What Others Won\u2019t<\/em> Do<\/h2>\n

    This is the first part about ambition and hard work. If you want things in life (and this applies to way more than just careers) you need to be willing to work harder than the average person.<\/p>\n

    An example of this is in my own career as a blogger. Most bloggers aren\u2019t willing to put in at least 12 months of continuous posting. If you\u2019re willing to that, you immediately increase your odds of success.<\/p>\n

    I have the same attitude with my MIT Challenge<\/a>. Sure having the right learning and productivity hacks helps. But I\u2019m also willing to wake up early every morning and put in the effort, every single day. There\u2019s less \u201cme too\u201d competition since I know most people aren\u2019t willing to do that.<\/p>\n

    Doing What Others Can\u2019t<\/em> Do<\/h2>\n

    The other part is about taking advantage of the opportunities that are exclusive to you. When you do this, you form a career path that is extremely hard to replicate, and as a result, making it easier to secure larger amounts of career capital for the same amount of effort.<\/p>\n

    Taking on this MIT Challenge was a decision based on that mantra. Anybody can learn from MIT\u2019s open courseware, but not everyone has a business based on learning or a platform to benefit from the attention. I\u2019m in an unusual, if not unique, position to take advantage of that opportunity.<\/p>\n

    I could have attempted a similar challenge with my fitness, travel or dating, but I\u2019m not really in a unique position to do anything with those. There are already way better fitness and travel experts who can take advantage of that.<\/p>\n

    How Do You Find Unique Opportunities?<\/h2>\n

    This sounds great in theory, you might be saying, but how do I find opportunities that I have exclusive access to?<\/p>\n

    My feeling is that you can\u2019t know where opportunities are going to come from in advance. If you can plan them out easily, then they wouldn\u2019t be the type of opportunities that are hard to follow. By definition, the opportunities have to come somewhat as a surprise, otherwise everyone would be competing for them.<\/p>\n

    The key to finding those random opportunities seems to be just exposing yourself to a lot of randomness. Meet tons of people, take on unusual projects, learn interesting subjects and skills.<\/p>\n

    The effect of opportunities compound, so the more unusual opportunities you take on, the more unique your position is in the career landscape. That allows you to further negotiate getting on even more unusual opportunities.<\/p>\n

    When I wrote the last update<\/a> to my MIT Challenge, I said that I\u2019m taking on the challenge for mostly intrinsic reasons. A lot of people interpreted that as being that I have no real reason for doing anything, and that I\u2019m somehow able to work really hard just on enthusiasm alone.<\/p>\n

    It would be nice if that were true, but it\u2019s not. Anything that takes work requires at least some effort. My point about intrinsic motivation is simply that the project fits my criteria of \u201cweird, interesting, semi-exclusive opportunities\u201d, and I\u2019m willing to pursue it to completion even though I have no idea what opportunities might arise from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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