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So check it out, crash.co.slash.daily. All right, back to it. Issue number 114. Do I write a script for my pitch video?
Section one, write bullet points versus writing a script. We recommend writing a few bullet points of what you'll say when you shoot your pitch video. Then speak off the cuff, much better. If you want, you can script the whole thing and read it, but it will be less natural.
Either way, the point is not perfection, it's completion. There's no exact right way to do it. Just do it. Make a pitch and you will jump to the top 1% of job seekers.
I'm telling you that it's absolutely the truth. Section two, the cure for a boring career. Guess what? You can have several careers at once.
This is the portfolio career. Do projects in different areas and express your full array of interests? Jeff Goings breaks it down in this four minute article, the cure for a boring career, which is linked in the email. Portfolio life is a quote from the article.
Portfolio life was a life in which you did not have to pick one vocation where what you did was not confined or constrained by a solitary interest. With a portfolio life, you could treat your career as a series of investments of time and energy that over the decades accumulated in value. Pretty cool. Port of the day by Leonardo da Vinci.
Learning never exhausts the mind. Ooh. That's it. OK, editorialization here.
That's a great quote because I think we often feel and has been tortured into us through schooling for the most part. That learning is a horrible activity. That's really, really hard. We avoid it.
It's like cleaning up the lawn or something. Like, I don't really want to do it. But genuine learning? That's because that's just crap we didn't want to do that we were forced to do.
Genuine learning? The idea of learning never exhaust the mind, as Vinci says here. I agree with that. I found that to be true myself.
You know, think about it. Like, you're super excited about a video game, trying to beat it. Or your fantasy football team. Studying up and learning how to do that.
It doesn't exhaust you. It energizes you. Chase that kind of stuff. Don't feel guilty about that.
Do the stuff that brings you energy. All right, that's it for this edition of the Daily Job Plant. Go to Crash.co slash daily to sign up to get us in your inbox every day, as well as some other really cool stuff. Or free.
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