HOW TO GET ATTENTION AT WORK

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If you want to get noticed at work, you must become the best at something. This might sound obvious, but it’s a common mistake many people make. Perhaps they think they can just coast through a project by checking all the bare minimum boxes. They show up, do a decent job, and go home. While those things help, they won’t guarantee that you progress through your career quickly or even get noticed at all. You need something tangibly impressive about you, and for that to happen you have to be amazing at something.

“You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.” — Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

To become an expert at something, there are three essential things you need:

AMBITION

If you want to be an expert at something, you need to be ambitious about it. If you’re not willing to put in a lot of work, chances are good that you’ll never be the best. Having the end goal in mind will help you plan the steps on your journey. I recommend creating a S.M.A.R.T. goal to help break things down into a formula that will help you achieve your vision. For your ambition to lead to success, you also need self-motivation in place so…