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  The co-founder and CEO of Tesla has one key strength most of us should put into practice. Elon Musk   is one of the world's smartest, richest, and most powerful people, and he's not shy about his aptitude for taking on new projects. The mastermind behind SpaceX, Tesla, and The Boring Company is a notoriously hard worker, putting in a gruelling 85-hour workweek for his passion projects and enterprises. Musk has a restless pursuit of knowledge and a talent for applying his learning across a range of disciplines. He is the quintessential modern polymath. This  infographic from Resume.io  has collected insights from Musk and other pioneers and entrepreneurs to inspire you to pursue your own ambitions. Musk offers his key to learning and retaining new information: It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e., the trunk and big branches before you get into the leave...

... (several lines of code) ... The meaning attached to the word “jobs” is currently undergoing a revolutionary change. The conventional seemingly “top notch” jobs are undergoing massive threat from the influx of what newness has to offer to the human experience. Aspirations are currently undergoing an absolute disruption, and the conventional day to day hustle of the average man needs some re-aligning, to avoid wasting sweat on gaining skills in areas of absolute irrelevancies. One must be careful to not confuse busyness for productivity. There’s a need for strategic pursuit; to pursue that which is necessary in the most competitive space to attain global relevance. The question then is, to what degree of relevance is your current job? How truly necessary is the skill you are currently trying so hard to acquire? The World Economic Forum in its newest report “The Future of Jobs” makes a detailed attempt at predicting how the typical work space will look like in the co...

This is why you should be taking advantage of your paid time off. Do you consider yourself a work martyr and feel no one else can do your job? Do you sacrifice your paid time off in a pursuit to further your career? That approach isn't helping you, according to a new study. While 38 percent of employees say they want their boss to consider them a work martyr, only 79 percent of these self-proclaimed work martyrs actually got a raise, compared to 84 percent of people who did not use this label, according to Project: Time Off's The State of American Vacation 2017. "We need to put to rest the fallacy that 'work ethic' is equivalent to work martyrdom," Project: Time Off Director of Communications Cait DeBaun said in a press release. "Not only are employees not getting ahead by sacrificing time off, these habits may also be harming their careers." Project: Time Off surveyed 7,331 U.S. employees who work more than 35 hours a week and found an ...