Puri: Quit unfulfilling work before deciding on your next move
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Shaan Puri discusses common career dilemmas sent by listeners on Twitter, arguing that staying in a mediocre job prevents people from discovering or pursuing what they actually want.
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“Whether you know what you want to do, if you don't know what to do, if you know, this is not what you want to do, the veil, the first step is make yourself single, get out of the bad relationship, right? Like that is the app, because it is taking up space in a way that you're not, your brain is not going to like properly assess the cost of that, because you're going to just see the small benefits you're getting from it. What you're not going to see is that actually, you know, you, nothing can fit in here because that's there.”
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