“Work is harder than you think it is,” Chris said. “But you should work harder than you think you should.”
“Careers are longer than most people think,” Chris explained. “It’s something around a hundred thousand hours that most of us are to work through our lives. You come out of school and everything’s been created for you to be very easy to digest. And then suddenly you get into the workplace and work’s not like that. But actually you look at people that are doing, you know, got 20, 30 years of experience. You look at them, they do an amazing job, but it’s because they’ve spent 20, 30 years getting good at it.”
He feels this combination of academia and working with smart people in a high-pressure government role gave him an excellent grounding of core skills and attitude. He wouldn’t recommend only working in the startup space.
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