Where Others Don’t

To become a professional, you need to do what others do. But to become a good professional, you need to do what others don’t.

I don’t mean being competitive—far from it. But you can be the one who steps up when no one else does. The one who helps out when a teammate is stuck. The one who brings a new idea, refactors an outdated repository, documents the undocumented, takes responsibility when things go wrong, and shares credit when they go right.

It sounds obvious, yet we tend to blend into our environment. Everyone wants to stand out, get noticed, and climb the ladder—but you won’t get there by doing the same as everyone else. Bad habits, disengagement, and complacency spread faster than their opposites.

It’s common to hear people talk about how burned out they feel. That it’s all routine. But—have you ever tried doing something different to change it? When nothing works, have you tried improving a small part of the process? When everyone seems to be in their own world, have you taken the initiative to connect and coordinate?

Where others only see problems, start seeing opportunities. Where others do nothing, begin doing something.

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