Category: Career Advice
Sharing the best advice and insights we’ve gleaned from successful people to help you take your career to the next level (or unlock what you’re meant to do)
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How to Develop a Recipe, the Ina Garten Way
Reading how Ina Garten develops recipes in ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’ is a masterclass in balancing flavor and texture. Here’s how she does it.
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The One Thing We Can All Learn from Kids, According to ‘How to Cake It’ Star Yolanda Gampp
How to Cake It star Yolanda Gampp shares how kids don’t let fear dominate their curiosity, enabling them to try new things much better than we can as adults.
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The Soul-Sucking Mistake People Make in Their Careers, According to GaryVee
A fat salary can lead to a comfortable life, and it can make switching jobs oh so appealing. Who doesn’t want to make more money, honestly? But the one thing you should consider before saying yes is—at what cost? “People think money makes you happy…and yet, we give up happiness every day in the pursuit…
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The Feeling Duff Goldman’s Been Chasing His Whole Career
If you want to hear a great story, talk to Duff Goldman. The Charm City Cakes founder and Food Fighters/Ace of Cakes star has lived a dozen lives—from bassist in an emo band to stage-show star—but when we spoke for a story on Delish.com back in 2015, one of the things that stood out the…
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How the “Fresh Start Effect” Can Improve Your Mondays
How the Fresh Start Effect can enhance your weekdays and defeat the Sunday Scaries
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The Difference Between Quitting and Giving Up, According to GrubHub Founder Mike Evans
Growing up, I was really good at quitting things. Specifically, sports. Because I’m tall, people always told me I should be a basketball player. Or volleyball player. Or maybe get into flag football. But definitely basketball. So I did those things, and very, very early on, I quit them all. (I actually quit flag football…
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What Makes People Judgy? The Cringey (Yet Eye-Opening) Truth
You’ve felt it before: Someone eyeing you up and down, whispering to another—and you can’t help but wonder if they’re judging you. And since we’re all human, I’m sure you’ve been there, too: Going all who does he think he is?! over something someone’s doing. It’s natural, but what makes people judgy? How can we…
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My Biggest Mistake as a Manager
You ever look back at life—say, when your brain pings you awake at 3 a.m.—and cringe as you relive a season of your past? No? Just me? Well, when I think of my first two years as a manager of a team, I wince. And want to reach out to those direct reports with a…
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Some People Are Just Going to Hate You—Here’s How Anne Hathaway Deals with It
As much as I know I can’t please everyone, I still try. I’ve agonized over whether people liked me, whether I offended them, whether they hated me—and why (or what I could do to change their mind about me). It’s a classic Type 9, people pleaser tendency. I’ve been working on letting go; realizing I…
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Fail Trying: The Most Powerful Takeaway from Bob Goff’s ‘Dream Big’
Bob Goff is one of those people you can’t believe actually exists. He’s a lawyer who serves as the honorary consul to the Republic of Uganda, who donates the proceeds of his books to bettering others’ lives—and is so willing to lend a hand he prints his actual cell phone number in those books. (Which…
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If You Only Take One Thing from Jenna Kutcher’s ‘How Are You, Really,’ Let It Be This
The concept of “knowing your worth” has always been something that washed over me. Yeah, yeah, sounds good, I’d nod, agreeing but never giving it much thought. Until I read Jenna Kutcher’s new book, How Are You, Really. All 19 chapters are an invitation to push past the perfunctory “how are you?” questions of life…
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BLUF: The 4 Letters That Changed the Way I Write Emails
While everybody’s focused on how Gen Z ends their emails, these days, I’m much more focused on the beginning. One of the first things I learned after landing at PureWow is their strategic approach to crafting emails, both internally and externally, and it all comes down to four letters: BLUF. Standing for “Bottom Line Up…
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