Hagge: Introspection without practical experimentation undermines successful career pivots
Kyle Hagee · Navigating Career Pivots (Kyle Hagge, Chief of Staff to the COO at Morning Brew & Co-Host of Per My Last Email) · Jun 13, 2024 · at 8:14
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Kyle Hagge, Chief of Staff to the COO at Morning Brew, explains why people attempting career transitions must test new fields hands-on before switching.
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“One issue I see with a ton of people that want to make career pivots is actually sit back and they just think about what they like. They do a lot of self-reflection. They do a lot of kind of looking at their intuition. I'm not anti-self-reflection. You should still be doing that. But sometimes you just don't know if you're going to like something until you do it. And so the worst thing you could do if you're trying to make a career pivot is to think you like something, make a successful pivot into that role, and then you're like, shit, I actually don't like this.”
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