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2263: The Value of Growing Your Career is Worth Millions More Than I Thought by ESI of ESI Money

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The Value of Growing Your Career Is Worth Millions More Than I Thought

If you plug along and are willing to accept average for your career or income, you're potentially missing out on millions of extra dollars during your lifetime. Cal Newport wrote a great book called So Good They Can't Ignore You where he talks about building up career capital. Become so good at what you do that you can then trade in career capital for autonomy. More money at that point will have very little effect over your quality of life.

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