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How do you build a life that you want? That's the central question Praxis CEO Cameron Sorsby and Praxis COO Mitchell Earl tackle in this episode.



We share from our own experiences across different stages in our lives and careers, attempting to design lives and careers that are both fulfilling and challenging. We also reflect on a share of our own mistakes, changes in our mindset over the years, and offer some advice for people just starting out on their own adventures into adulthood.



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Praxis is a life and career development program for young adults who want to thrive in the real world. It's your opportunity to shape your future alongside growth-minded peers and dedicated mentors.

Learn more at: http://discoverpraxis.com/
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In this episode, we talk about the impact of mentors, role models, and anti-role models.



There are right and wrong ways to pursue mentorship. There are different uses for mentors at different stages in your life. While mentors can act as a force-multiplier for you, too much focus on mentorship (and not enough on doing the work) can stunt your growth.



Be mindful of the value of your mentors' time. Find ways to be valuable. Take their advice and apply it – show them progress, don't just listen: act.



Check out the full episode and drop a comment below to let us know your thoughts on mentorship!



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Praxis is a life and career development program for young adults who want to thrive in the real world. It's your opportunity to shape your future alongside growth-minded peers and dedicated mentors.

Learn more at: http://discoverpraxis.com/
Apply now at : https://www.discoverpraxis.com/apply

In this episode, we break down Paul Graham's timeless essay, How to Make Wealth, discussing several of the key insights and what it means for your career + financial future. Paul Graham is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder of Y-Combinator. His essay draws on his experience as both a founder and investor working with early-stage startup companies in the process of "creating wealth". 

Graham discusses the advantages of working at an early stage company – as a way to average your productivity with a small group of other highly-competent, high-output people. As opposed to working at a large corporation, where your productivity is averaged across thousands to tens-of-thousands of people, often times very average, at best. He shares how this difference in your own productivity multiple directly impacts your earning potential, and why startups offer a disproportionate advantage in wealth creation. 

Excerpt from the essay: "Startups are not magic. They don't change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve. There is a conservation law at work here: if you want to make a million dollars, you have to endure a million dollars' worth of pain. For example, one way to make a million dollars would be to work for the Post Office your whole life, and save every penny of your salary. Imagine the stress of working for the Post Office for fifty years. In a startup you compress all this stress into three or four years. You do tend to get a certain bulk discount if you buy the economy-size pain, but you can't evade the fundamental conservation law. If starting a startup were easy, everyone would do it."

Graham also explains the difference between money and wealth. And what you need in order to create wealth – i.e. leverage and measurement.

This essay offers keen and timeless insights into the process of wealth creation, as well as important perspective about how the types of environments / institutions you work in have a direct impact on your earning potential.

Articles & Links Mentioned:

How to Make Wealth by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: https://www.navalmanack.com/



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Praxis is a life and career development program for young adults who want to thrive in the real world. It's your opportunity to shape your future alongside growth-minded peers and dedicated mentors.

Learn more at: http://discoverpraxis.com/

Apply now at : https://www.discoverpraxis.com/apply

The velocity of your decision can have a tremendous impact on your life and career. It can directly impact your ability to win cool opportunities, how quickly (and how much) momentum you build, and how that impacts your long-term trajectory thanks to the power of compound interest.

One useful way to think about decision-making velocity is as a continuum – one one end, you've got an extreme action-bias with very rapid decision making and on the other end, you've got a more methodical, calculating and slower decision-making process. 

At different stages in your career, and as the stakes change, one default velocity may make more sense than the other. However, early on in your career, when you lack experience, skill, and a strong professional reputation, you can often overcome a mountain of inertia by being quick to say yes to the stuff that excites you. Rather than deliberating too long.

Renowned entrepreneur Derek Sivers once said, "No yes. Either HELL YEAH or no!" That's great advice in the long-run. But in the early innings of your career, a better way to think about it might be "Yes to anything that's not a HELL NO!" And as you gain more experience + clarity about your career,  that shifts to "No to anything that's not a HELL YES!"

The reason this order of operation makes sense is that when you're just starting out, you lack clarity, experience, and credibility. Developing those in tandem gives you more leverage over your career. Your increased skills and experience open up for opportunities. Not to mention, you develop a higher resolution vision for your life and career.  Which is as much about identifying what you want to do as it is about what you don't want to do.

That's why decision-making velocity can make such a huge difference early in your career. The rate at which you conduct experiments greatly impacts your own growth and trajectory. The more decisions you make, the more experience you gain. If you can accelerate that timeline by getting 10-fold more at-bats early in your career, you can set your self up for rapid growth. Which means by your 30s, the momentum you've built could put you in a much stronger position, which much greater leverage and agency over your life.

Don't give yourself paralysis through analysis. Learn how to leverage decision-making velocity to your advantage.



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Praxis is a life and career development program for young adults who want to thrive in the real world. It's your opportunity to shape your future alongside growth-minded peers and dedicated mentors.

Learn more at: http://discoverpraxis.com/

Apply now at : https://www.discoverpraxis.com/apply

Ever felt like you were stuck on someone else's timeline for your life and career? We've been there. In this episode, Praxis CEO Cameron Sorsby and Praxis COO Mitchell Earl break down the "Timeline Myth" for your education and career. 

Chances are you've encountered this same myth. You go to high school, then college, and by your mid-20s your holding down a stable career, working towards retirement in your 60s. We say that timeline – and the milestones it implies – is bogus. 

You're on your own discovery process and your own development curve. Different stages along your development curve may call for different velocity or direction. You may want to accelerate and move faster than the traditional timeline. Or maybe go off-script and pursue something entirely different. Which is great! Naturally, there are tradeoffs to consider. But in general, what's most important is owning your journey.

The key is figuring out how to conduct your own discovery process, learning to compare yourself (today) vs. yourself (in the past) rather than comparing yourself to your peers. 

Your life and career are very long. You've got a ton of time to try stuff. Make mistakes. Recover. Pivot. Change directions. And more. 

As real estate developer and entrepreneur Eric Weatherholtz once said, "We overestimate what can be accomplished in a year and we underestimate what can be accomplished in a decade."

The same is true for your life and career. You're on your own journey. You get to set the speed.



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Praxis is a life and career development program for young adults who want to thrive in the real world. It's your opportunity to shape your future alongside growth-minded peers and dedicated mentors.

Learn more at: http://discoverpraxis.com/

Apply now at : https://www.discoverpraxis.com/apply

Looking for a simple way to level up your career quick? Move away from your home town. No, it's not necessarily easy to pick up and relocate. But it can work wonders for your career. Especially if you're from a more rural area with less prevalent economic opportunity. But it's not just about being able to access "better" or higher-paying jobs. Moving away from home also forces independence. 

When you move to a new city, you're presented with the opportunity to re-invent yourself, to solidify and challenge existing beliefs, to discard the identity of your youth, and to develop your own identity – anchored in your abilities, your merits, and your own beliefs. This can be a huge challenge! But it's an essential part of the transition from youth to adulthood. The newfound confidence and independence can work wonders for your personal and professional life.

And the best part? You don't have to move away to a new city permanently. Moving from a small town to a big city to gain skills, experience, and build professional credibility offers you an incredibly long-term career and financial "hack". If you can build a strong enough professional reputation for yourself, and a portable skill set, remote work could offer you the opportunity to keep your big-city income and move back to a lower-cost of living area.

All-in-all, it's not about whether you choose to live in rural America, the suburbs, or a city. It's about designing your life and career into what you want it to be. Moving away at the start of your career offers a tremendous advantage to gain more agency over both.

In this episode, Praxis CEO Cameron Sorsby and Praxis COO Mitchell Earl draw on their own experiences moving across the country multiple times, relocating for jobs, relocating because they wanted to, the pros and cons of transient living vs. growing roots, and more. You won't want to miss this episode!