Often networking and hustle are in opposition to each other. A father calling in a favor to his old golf buddy to get his son an internship is networking, but there wasn't much hustle involved on the son's part. And that's how a lot of connected people get jobs.
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Are they in opposition (antagonistic) or different (complementary)?
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Can be both, but I was speaking to the antagonistic nature of networking and hustle. I do think people undervalue building networks and utilizing them, but networking unduly advantages the elite.
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Having a network is a shortcut that makes it so you don't have to hustle
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Exactly
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That son won't last without hustle. Prince got a job as a janitor at a studio to get free recording time. But he still had to become Prince.
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Naive nonsense. Extraordinary people have always overcome disadvantage. That fact doesn't negate the existence of the disadvantage.
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What do you have in mind primarily when you say, hustle? (Pure curiosity - I'm always interested in how people define the word since it's used so much...)
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I’d also like to know what Austin means by this.
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Ability to create something out of nothing
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To take initiative. To do work beyond and above what is assigned by a superior.
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Everything about traditional schooling definitely hampers both of these. Who you are and who you know does not/should not matter. Work you do beyond what is assigned will not be rewarded.
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And the ability to interview well. Bring this all up a level, and really we just see that interpersonal skills are the most valuable tool for success. Soft skills > Hard skills
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Check out "Never Eat Alone" by
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and, relatedly, stress management
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He says, referencing his sample of well-trained software engineers in the most booming tech economy in the globe ;)
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100% disagree. Some of the best employees I’ve met that work outside of tech had next to zero network ability.
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Which is why it’s important to still have a gate that you let people through, and assess them as people, not checklists and demographic stereotypes
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