Hard skills get you hired.

But soft skills get you promoted.

11 soft skills to accelerate your career:

1. Communication:

• Listen without interrupting.
• Speak with a positive tone.
• Pay attention to your body language.

2. Persuasion:

• Identify what other people care about.
• Create stories that resonate with them.
• Communicate those stories with brevity and emotion.

3. Negotiation:

• Listen carefully.
• Understand what the other side wants.
• Know your worth.
• Then propose solutions that benefit both sides.

4. Relationship building:

• Help others unconditionally.
• Look for common interests.
• Always add value before asking for something in return.

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Elon Musk is a big believer in First Principles Thinking.

Not just Musk — Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Feynman too.

Here's what it is, how to use it, and become better at it:

What it is:

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on First Principles Thinking:

It means "boiling things down to the most fundamental truths and then reasoning up from there."

A first principle is a basic truth that cannot be broken down any further.

God — this reminds me of high school chemistry when we first learnt about Atoms.

But that's what they're like! The basic foundations.

Here are 2 techniques to use First Principles Thinking:

1. The Five Whys

This is simple. Keep asking why.

Already asked why? Ask again.

Continuously ask why things are the way they are.

It'll help you discover the root causes of problems (hence helping you solve them).

You know what — Children are great at this...

Children question everything.

They keep asking why (almost to the point that it gets annoying).

Their curiosity enables them to think from first principles.

As we get older, we lose this child-like curiosity to keep asking why.

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• All Selectors in CSS
• All in one frame [Animations]
• CSS Filters
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GitHub is a Goldmine and finding the right resources can be difficult.

Here are the 10 Github repositories every Web Developer should know!🙌
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Before getting ahead, want to suggest y'all this free tool which I've been using for about a month now. It has really helped me explore and learn new things:
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It summarises Web Dev, Crypto, and ML concepts in just 64 words.

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It's a set of standards for developing consistent, flexible, and sustainable HTML and CSS.

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A 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics.

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A CSS course for web developers who want to be

17 tweets that’ll make you more money than a $155,088 English degree:

Hook your reader with these 5 tips:

1. Create curiosity
2. Hint at a benefit
3. Use simple words
4. Use words “you” and “your”
5. Keep the opening sentence short

That’s why you clicked on this thread ;)

Write below a 5th grade level.

Don’t say: “Utilize”
Say: “Use"

Don't say: "Affirmative"
Say: “Yes”

Don’t say: “Idiosyncratic”
Say: “Distinct”

The smarter you try to sound, the dumber you look.

Abolish your adverbs.

She didn’t “Yell loudly.”
She “Screamed.”

The man wasn’t “Really big.”
The man was “Gigantic.”

The boy didn’t “Run quickly ahead.”
The boy “Raced ahead.”

Use the right words and you won't waste them.

Terminate the word “very” from your vocabulary.

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Collaborated with @niki_poojary

1st Course - TastyTrade (@tastytrade)

This Youtube channel is a goldmine for people wanting to learn about options both basics and advanced.

2nd Course - Power of Stocks

Takes you to his Zerodha console and starts explaining practically from there why/when/how to tackle stock

3rd Course - Pushkar Raj Thakur: Business Coach @PushkarRThakur

Explains concepts in a very simple manner starting with option basics, and then covers the strategies and

4th Course - Option Alpha (@OptionAlpha)

They have laid out the path to generating consistent income trading

Do you want to put on muscle?

Here are the best exercises for muscle growth for each body part:

There are many different strategies for muscle growth .

All can be effective if implemented correctly.

For each muscle group in this thread, I've included:

-1 compound "overload" exercise.
-1 lighter "isolation" exercise.

Let's get into it.

CHEST

DB Bench Press

- Gives you more ROM vs. a BB bench press.

Cable Crossover

- Can exaggerate the "squeeze" at the end of the ROM. Can adjust cable height to place emphasis on different areas of the pec.

LATS

Supinated Lat Pulldown, or Chin Up

- Both have the same motion, but a slightly different stimulus. Supinated grip, about shoulder width apart.

SA Cable Lat Row

- High cable position, pulling in the direction of the muscle fibers. Emphasize stretch at top of exercise.

FRONT DELTS

Dumbbell Overhead Press

- Can adjust angle of the press for best results for your anatomy/current ROM.

Front Raise

- Great for isolating the front delts. Don't need lots of weight to hit these hard. Don't swing, actively lift.

The Psychology of Sales: 12 Steps to Selling that Actually Work...

1/ Relax

Drop the fake "salesy" enthusiasm

Be real

Be genuine

Show you are in control and get the conversation started off on the right foot

2/ Replace the pitch with a conversation

99% of salespeople pitch early

Never start with a pitch EVER

Ask open questions

You run the risk of pitching to the wrong problem

3/ Take the pressure off

If you try and force the sale you will lose the sale

Have an air of calm

Prospects can feel the desperation

Also...

4/ It's not about you

People only care about themselves

Ask questions about the prospect's challenges and concerns

If you are talking more than the client

that's a bad sign

23 lessons learned from 10 years of natural lifting

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1. Train your muscles 2x per week. Bro splits are for amateurs.

2. Push, Pull, Legs, Rest, Upper, and Lower is the split that built me the most muscle.

3. "Hardgainer" is a term for someone who needs to lift heavier and eat more.

4. Weight training and a good diet will do more for your physique than hours of mundane cardio.

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I read every annual letter Jeff Bezos published at Amazon.

It's a masterclass on strategy & leadership.

11 critical insights from a legendary leader:

1/ Move Fast

Bezos understood the importance of moving quickly.

Especially as Amazon grew.

To survive as a large company, you have to move at the pace of a startup.

If not, you'll die.

2/ Don't Sweat Reversible Decisions

Some problems require long thought and deliberation.

But many don't.

If a decision is easily reversible, Bezos thought they should be made quickly by "high judgement individuals or small groups."

3/ Stay Terrified... Of Your Customers

In the 1998 letter, Bezos remarked that it was Amazon's customers and not competition that should be feared.

He understood that Amazon was providing a service.

Amazon to this day has unmatched service to their customers.

4/ Focus On Inputs

Amazon constantly focused on things that they had input on.

-# of products available
-# of items available for Prime shipping

The focus on the inputs (what Amazon could control) led to the outputs Wall Street looked for.

If you’re building your career…

Prioritize these core principles:

Build a Personal Board of Advisors

The concept of “mentorship” has become too formal.

Asking someone to be your mentor feels like a big commitment.

Instead, build a Personal Board of Advisors.

A diverse group of 5-10 people you can go to for questions, advice, or feedback.

Swallow the Frog for Your Boss

One of the single greatest hacks to getting ahead early in your career:

(1) Observe your boss
(2) Figure out what they hate doing
(3) Learn to do it
(4) Take it off their plate

It's a clear way to add value, put up a win, and build momentum.

Create a Decentralized Growth Tribe

Having a decentralized friend group to grow with is a real competitive advantage.

• Unconnected to other groups
• Different backgrounds
• Range of experience sets
• Novel perspectives

Call it your Growth Tribe. It’s a huge value unlock.

Learn to Sell

To be successful, you either need to learn how to build or you need to learn how to sell.

Most of us aren't technically-gifted—so just learn to sell.

The more you progress in any field, the more of your job becomes sales.

If you can sell, you'll always make it.

The Ladders of Wealth Creation—a step-by-step roadmap to building wealth:

Making money is a skill—like playing the drums or piano—that you can get better at over time.

I wouldn’t expect to be able to sit down at a piano for the first time and play a concerto. The same is true for making money.

This is why most first companies fail.

The Ladders of Wealth Creation breaks an insanely complicated topic of building wealth into the component parts and skills to give you a roadmap of what to do first.

Look at this graphic, then we’ll break down each step.

Ladder 1: Time for Money

The first ladder is trading time for money. This is how most people you know earn a living.

It may start with an hourly job working for Starbucks, but then transition into a salaried position working at a company.

The skills for success are simple, but critical:

1. Show up consistently
2. Being reliable
3. Eager to learn

Every job requires those three things.

To climb the ladder to a salaried position you need to specialize in certain skills (design, copywriting, legal, nursing, etc).