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What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 4 Arts and letters 8 Politics and public life 3 Business and finance 6 Technology 7 Sport 4
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 6 In their forties 4 In their fifties 8 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 5
Drew Houston Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox
I was going to say work on what you love, but that's not really it. It's so easy to convince yourself that you love what you're doing — who wants to admit that they don't? When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
Recorded MIT 147th Commencement, MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 7 June 2013 source ↗
Daniel Ek Co-founder and former chief executive of Spotify
Many people talk about a willingness to have failures. I hate failures. I don't think you should strike to make failures. I think it's OK to make mistakes – but by the time they become real failures, you probably should have discovered them much earlier.
Recorded Slush conference, Helsinki, Music Ally, 30 November 2016 source ↗

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