Dear Young People,
Below is a brief lesson that I share with those who ask me for career advice. I hope it will be useful to you.
Category 1 (C1): Honesty, humility, discipline, effort and compassion
is as important as
Category 2 (C2): Irreverence, creativity, drive, communication and risk-taking.
In this era, C1 may look boring and sound cynical, but C1 can give you as much of a competitive advantage as C2, especially in the long run.
Importantly, C1 will build your character. C1 is probably the best way to build self-confidence, and hence self-respect.
This is not to underplay C2, which is equally important. Just that C1 and C2 are not zero-sums.
C1 and C2 are incomplete lists, and you can always expand them and keep referring to them for directions in life.
Best Wishes,
from a fellow student
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