Activities that are hard to learn and hard to do. You have little talent and interest in this kind of activity and you should move away from them as soon as you can, and never sign up for a job whose main tasks fall in this category. If a job you used to enjoy pushes you into this kind of role, it’s better to leave before your confidence gets affected. Your self-confidence is to your soul what the spine is to your body: without it, you cannot stand or move.
Activities that are easy to learn and hard to do. Things like manual labor and heavy lifting, laborious paperwork, and repetitive things like data entry.
Use this kind of job only as a stepping stone. When you’re new in the market most opportunities will be of this kind.
Activities that are hard to learn and easy to do. Things like driving a car or typing on a keyboard. These are usually advantageous life skills and you shall apply yourself and acquire as many of them as you think you’ll need. In many cases, they’ll make you win opportunities when everything else is equal, even if they’re not necessarily needed for that job. So during your holidays and free time pursue those low-cost online certificates in environmental conservation, programming, and CPA. Anything in your line of work.
Activities that are easy to learn and easy to do. This should be your goal, to make your career center on this kind of activity. They’re easy because you’re naturally gifted in them and you learn them ten times faster because they’re wired in you.
The person who discovers this kind of work is in the same degree of luck as one who discovers a vein of gold. It should be your obsession.
Remember Grandma Moses? When she was a teenager she wanted to start painting as a career but she came from a poor family so she was discouraged from it, because ‘it was for the elite and she couldn’t commercialize it easily.’ So she settled for farming with her husband and they did it for fifty years. When she was 75 her husband died and her children were grown and away.
50 difficult things to learn that will benefit you forever
by: WagsJ