This is by (source: ). Kahn is a self-proclaimed “marketing and psychology nerd” Twitter Thread Zain Kahn @heykahn 08-09-2022 Hard skills help you get a job. But meta-skills help you build a career. 11 meta-skills to accelerate your career: 1. Decision-making: • Take a step back when faced with a big decision. • Identify the key emotions and biases affecting the decision. • Create a list of all the available options. • Understand the short and long term consequences of each option. • Decide accordingly. 2. Communication: • Listen without interrupting. • Speak with a positive tone. • Pay attention to your body language. 3. Prioritizing: • Create a list of everything you have to do. • Rank things by urgency and importance. • Do things that are urgent and important. • Delegate, schedule, or delete everything that isn't urgent and important. Self awareness: • Be curious about how your mind works. • Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. • Identify which situations or events trigger certain reactions. 5. Time management: • Learn to prioritize. • Learn to delegate. • Learn to say no. 6. Creativity: • Experiment with new routines. • Try different solutions to existing problems. • Try the opposite of what people are currently doing. • Try as many new ideas as quickly as possible to increase your odds of finding a new insight. 7. Storytelling: • Identify what problem people are trying to solve. • Show them how you will help them solve the problem. • Identify the right emotions that will help your audience go from understanding their problem to accepting you as the solution. 8. Resilience: • Do more things your are not qualified to do. • Reframe every failure as a learning opportunity. • Keep repeating this till you convert failure into success. 9. Emotional intelligence: • Never act impulsively. • Take a step back when you're upset. • Understand what you're feeling. • Act accordingly. 10. Connecting the dots: • Go deep into a subject or fields of interest. • Then explore other fields similar to yours. • Read widely and talk to people in these new fields. • Zoom out and identify recurring patterns of success across these fields to connect the dots. 11. Grit: • Pick a long term goal. • Practice it everyday. • Identify ways you can maintain your motivation when the going gets tough and you hit a block. Thanks for reading! If you found this helpful, follow me at to get more threads like this. @heykahn Feature image generated via Prompt of ‘Use These 11 Meta-Skills to Accelerate Your Career’ HackerNoon Stable Diffusion

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