A set of tips and tricks I've learned over the years from mentors, friends family and a ton of individuals around the world.

1. Taking Challenges to Opportunities
Tim Worboys
Sr. Manager, Software Engineering @ LinkedIn
Various High-Level Volunteer Positions @ IEEE
Member, Communications Committee @ IEEE-USA
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Tips and Tricks to Own Your Career

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3. Hard Work Pays Off
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6. Face Your Fears
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8. Don’t Let Your Dreams
Get In the Way of Your
Happiness
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10. Do What You’re
Passionate About
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12. Success is about
making yourself
replaceable, not
important
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14. Don’t be Afraid to
Change Your Path
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16. Don’t Be Afraid to Ask –
We Get Judged on How
We do as a Team
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18. Ask How You Can Help
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20. Be Authentic and Nice
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22. Find the Need YOU can Fill
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24. The Best Opportunities
May not Always be the
Most Exciting
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26. Always Be Doing
Something You Don’t
Think You Can
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28. Surround Yourself with
Mentors
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30. Always Challenge the
Status Quo
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Confidence doesn’t come from always being right, but instead from
not being afraid to be wrong – Peter T. McIntyre

32. Confidence is Most of
the Battle
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34. Explicitly Choose Your
Tours of Duty
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36. Focus on Your
Strengths
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38. Everyone Can Teach
You Something
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40. Don’t be a victim
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42. No Decision is a
Decision – The Worst
One
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44. Figure Out Your Brand
& Share It!
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46. Volunteering - People
Let You Do Things You
Couldn’t Elsewhere
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48. Change is Opportunity
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50. If You Have to Make a
Mistake Fail Fast
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51. Don’t Let Wrong
Decisions Become
Mistakes
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52. Follow me on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tworboys
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53. Additional Reading
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest
in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, by Reid
Hoffman
The Alliance, by Reid Hoffman
Conscious Business: How to Build Value through
Values, by Fred Kofman
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54. Things Told To Me
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55. Who You Know Matters
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56. Being a Generalist is
Good
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57. You Never Know Who
You’ll Inspire; Be
Careful What You Do!
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