career advice to IGNORE in your twenties

Should you be pulling yourself up by your bootstraps? Perhaps not. Let's start the new year off right with a bit of myth busting!

00:00 intro
00:58 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
02:37 PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS
04:40 JACK OF ALL TRADES

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Sources:
I first heard about all of these from 'Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations by Garson O'Toole

But I also read about them here:


THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

https://www.businessinsider.com/misin...

PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/...

https://zapier.com/blog/you-cant-pull...

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...

JACK OF ALL TRADES

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/j...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecoo...



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