The document presents ten key learnings about work, life, and personal growth by Amancio Bouza, emphasizing the importance of knowledge, effort, commitment, innovation, creativity, communication, unique skills, and the nature of one’s career. It advocates for embracing one's true self, effective communication, and leveraging personal branding to create value and achieve success. Ultimately, the document underscores the power of a smile and human connection as essential elements in both personal and professional contexts.

1. 10LEARNINGS ABOUT
WORK, LIFE, AND MAGIC
by Amancio Bouza

2. #1 KNOWLEDGE FOLLOWS FORM
Pick a form
Give it a title
Fill, think, learn, and repeat
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“You already know. Use forms to guide you to explicit knowledge.”
https://medium.com/api-product-management/two-breeds-of-api-api-products-and-api-solutions-fa726213ecea

3. #2 TOP-1% REQUIRES
TOP-1% EFFORT
What do you want?
What can you sacrifice?
Learn to say “NO”
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“100% excellent delivery gets you 0% further”

4. #3 INNOVATION IS AN ILLUSION
1. Listen
2. Adopt & Combine
3. Share
4. Go to 1.
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“Innovation is fake. There’s no approach. Instead, have an open
mindset: In and Out”

5. #4 TIME IS LIMITED AND FIXED
1. Be creative from 9pm to 5am
2. Learn to Scale and to Leverage
3. Plan for Transition
4. Patience
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“Rethink when and how you do things”
https://day9.tv/

6. #5 BEST OUTCOME WHEN YOU
COMMIT WITH YOUR HEART
1. Fully commit
2. Act as if it’s your own
business. Care!
3. Give and help others
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“When you commit with your heart, then the Universe conspires to
make it successful.”
Andrea Z.
a client
https://medium.com/api-product-management

7. #6 BECOME YOU
What’s your superpower?
Ask others.
What makes you happy?
How can you use your
superpower to create value?
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“Reflect regularly what you want.”

8. #7 LEARN TO COMMUNICATE
1. Be aware that you get one #
2. Communicate your chosen #
3. Personal branding is the tool
to make others see the right #
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“Your #TAG is your choice. Branding is the way to communicate.”
https://www.slideshare.net/cPOEt/how-to-use-personal-branding-to-stand-out-72587334

9. #8 HORIZONTAL LEARNING
Identify unique skills
Learn these skills to create
unique value
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“Find the right mix of keeping up-to-date and become unique.”
VALUE
UNIQUNESS
https://youtu.be/AHFiSRrqv28

10. #9 CONTINUOUS CAREER
Career is not a ladder.
Career is a song you write and play.
Great careers have a great melody
and timing with ups and downs.
The story to the melody is written
afterwards, always.
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“Career is not a planned waterfall process. Career is not agile.”

11. #10 SMILE
Smiling is a human superpower
Be human: empathic,
compassionate
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“Smiling is everybodies superpower.”

12. @AmancioBouza
Amancio BouzaAPI is the interface to a value proposition
API & AI Enthusiast, Dot Connector,
Author of API Product Management
• Principal Consultant, ipt
• Catalyst, The Digital Journeymen
• Startup Advisor, Recipe
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amanciobouza
@amancio.bouza
amanciobouza.com