Metadata
- Author: Adaobi
- Full Title:: How to Do Things if You’re Not That Smart and Don’t Have Any Talent
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://adaobi.substack.com/p/how-to-do-things-if-youre-not-that
- Finished date:: 2024-01-30
Highlights
Do grunt work. Most people do not like doing grunt work. More often than not people want to be doing “creative” work, such as discovering or creating new things. Fortunately for you, this is your opportunity to shine. Become someone who loves grunt work. Most times the work is not that complicated, it’s just laborious, repetitive, and not that intellectually challenging, but it is important. Learn to genuinely love it and do it for the team or project. People will appreciate you. (View Highlight)
Do the boring things. Similar to grunt work, there will always be boring work to do. Learn to love it & do it! This is an especially good area to work in if you aren’t so smart or talented because people will show you more grace & patience to get up to skill (purely because they don’t want to do it themselves). (View Highlight)
Finish things. Probably the most important thing after being audacious (View Highlight)