That’s it folks! The 50th and final episode of the Forward Tilt podcast. Over the last 50 weeks, we covered one lesson a week. One way to get off the conveyor belt and take control of building your career and life. Now that Forward Tilt is over, Isaac gives his recommendations for more resources to check out. Links: Office Hours Podcast discoverpraxis.com Get a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth at discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Dec 15, 2017
5 min
To short a stock is to sell it before you own it. You sell it today and agree to deliver in the future because you believe the cost will go down and you will be able to buy it at a cheaper price. When you put off tasks to the future, you are doing the same thing with your time. Every action you take has a cost, and when you leave for tomorrow what you could do today, you communicate a lot about the way you value your time. Topics Discussed: - Shorting your own stock - Opportunity cost - If you get better every day, the value of your time in the future goes up - Valuing future time less when you should actually value it more - If you can do it now, do it For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Dec 8, 2017
7 min
We call it baby steps when you take small guarded steps forward. But babies take the exact opposite approach. They flail, take big risks, and learn as they go. When babies start crawling they don’t cautiously ease their way into it. They get up, fall down and crash into things. They’ll walk off the top of the stairs if you don’t have it blocked. Only once they take risks do they develop the skill needed to be more precious and safe. But they would never gain that skill if they didn’t take risks initially. The same is true for learning in adulthood. We want it to be safe, to ease our way in, but the best way to learn is to do what babies do and just go for it. In this episode: - Babies take risks, not guarded steps - When you start anything, don’t ease your way in - The power of taking big swings - We learn by taking “real” baby steps For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Dec 1, 2017
7 min
There has been a trend recently of popular content creators online talking about how there are too many blogs, too many podcasts, and the world doesn’t need more. Apart from the obvious irony, they miss the most important value creators get from creating content. Sure there is a chance to grow an audience and monetize it, but much more powerful is the learning, signaling, and social capital value that you get from consistently creating content. Discussed in this episode: - The amount of content on the internet is doubling each year - Three values to creating and sharing content online. - Creating to learn - Creating to signal - Creating to build social capital For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Nov 24, 2017
12 min
In this episode, Praxis Education Director, TK Coleman guest hosts to talk about creativity and HTML. Most people think of creativity and associate it with inspiration, living in cool neighborhoods, and eccentricity. But in reality, creativity is a lot more about hard work than it is about cool esthetics. Just like HTML is nothing without plain text, the cool and unique aspects we associate with creativity are nothing without hard work and the simple ability to get things done. Topics Covered: - The best creators are the ones who know how to get stuff - Why some “Creative” people don’t create results - Creating can be done anywhere at any time - Creativity is the HTML of handwork - Don’t ask “How can I become more creative?” For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Nov 17, 2017
13 min
No one has ever been hired for their resume. At best a good resume will get someone curious to find out more about you, but it is the more about you—the background—that will get you hired. Instead of a resume, what truly matters is your reputation. Your connections, friends, coworkers, and customers who know the type of work you do will open up new opportunities. In This Episode: - No one has ever been hired for their resume - Why so many jobs go to people who know people at the company - Doing your current job exceptionally well is the best way to find new opportunities - Talking about what you love about your job - Build your reputation, don’t worry about your resume For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Nov 10, 2017
8 min
Statistics can be very illuminating in aggregate, but individuals are not aggregates. If you only choose a course of action when statistics are in your favor you will never get where you want to go. In this episode: - Statistics don’t do the work for you - You are special enough to not go to college - Why shooting “low-percentage” shots can make sense - Individuals are not aggregates For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Nov 3, 2017
7 min
Whether is writing a blog post, creating a video, or making a marketing plan, if you sit around theorizing about the perfect way to do it, you won't get any closer to perfect. We like to imagine that the longer we have to do something, the more time we have to think and plan and edit the better the end result. But in reality it is almost never extra time that gets us great results, it is extra reps. In this episode: - An example from two groups of pottery students - Perfection is a byproduct - Mistaking a byproduct for a precondition - Art and Fear by Bayles and Orland (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking/dp/0961454733) For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Oct 27, 2017
6 min
This week on Forward Tilt, Praxis’ COO Cameron Sorsby guests host to share three key traits that separate great young professionals from the pack. relay a story from a recent golf trip that led to a clear insight about what soft skills separate great young employees from the pack.
For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Oct 20, 2017
10 min
The standard approach to getting a job is to go out to a business and with a resume and interview tell employers about your skills and experience. It’s the equivalent of saying “Here I am, I have skills.” It creates work for the business to figure out if those skills are relevant, legitimate, or even valuable and as a result, it doesn’t help you find the best opportunities. The better approach is to do the work yourself and come to a business with a pitch on how you will create value. Instead of writing about how you have SEO skills, send in an analysis and plan of the companies SEO. Instead of listing your excel skills, send in a spreadsheet you made that could be valuable for there work. Instead of saying that you can create value, actually create value and watch how many opportunities it will open for you. In this episode: - Product beats paper - What a generic resume tells employers - How Brian Nuckols got his marketing role for Praxis with a value proposition - Pitching a guest blog post - Thinking from a businesses perspectives - The value creation mindset For a free copy of Forward Tilt: An Almanac for Personal Growth go to discoverpraxis.com/forwardtilt
Oct 13, 2017
9 min
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