| Tip 6 | Don’t Listen to Your Parents |
In our culture, there’s something sacred about following the advice of your parents. It’s seen as a child’s duty and ranks up there with doing one’s religious duty as The Right Thing to do. Books, movies, and television plots are hinged on the parents’ wisdom as a moral. But for careers in our industry, this moral is wrong.
Your parents would rather you be OK than have a remarkable career at the cost of great personal risk. More than any other third party you might look to, your parents are going to give you fear-driven advice. Fear-driven advice is geared toward not losing. Thinking about not losing is not the way to win! Winners take risks. They think about where they want to go—not where the rest of the ...
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