What Career Professionals Can Learn from You Are a Badass
The belief that you're "not the type of person" who gets promoted or negotiates a raise is usually an inherited limiting belief, not an accurate account of your actual value.
The whole book, compressed
This edition works through 4 core lessons — take them one at a time, not all at once.
What's different for your conditions
Tap whichever ones sound like you. Nothing here is sent or saved — it's just for your own noticing.
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The core lessons, applied to you
Naming the limiting belief behind your hesitation
Your hesitation to ask for a raise or pitch for a stretch role is often rooted in an old, unexamined belief about not deserving more, rather than a reasoned assessment of your actual contribution.
Someone goes years without asking for a raise they're clearly qualified for, driven by an unexamined belief that asking would seem greedy or presumptuous.
Name one career ask you've been avoiding, and consider honestly whether the hesitation is reasoned or an old belief about what you deserve.
How your self-belief shapes the opportunities you pursue
Someone who doesn't believe they're ready for a bigger role tends to unconsciously avoid putting themselves forward for it, creating a self-fulfilling limitation before any actual rejection occurs.
Someone avoids applying for an internal stretch role entirely, so the opportunity is lost to self-selection rather than any actual external rejection.
Name one role or project you've ruled yourself out of before even trying, and put yourself forward for it this month.
Taking the bold ask before you feel fully confident
Waiting to feel fully confident before making a career ask keeps most people stuck at a plateau; confidence typically follows the ask rather than preceding it.
Identify one career ask you've been delaying until you feel more confident, and make it this month regardless of how confident you feel.
Curating who surrounds your career
The colleagues and mentors you spend the most time with either reinforce your bold moves or quietly discourage them, and choosing that circle deliberately supports the career you're building.
Being realistic about genuine market conditions and pushing past an old limiting belief aren't opposites — the discipline is telling the two apart honestly rather than using "being realistic" to justify never asking.
Name one thing, honestly
Name one career ask you've been avoiding. Is the hesitation reasoned, or an old belief about what you deserve?
Good. Now look back at the "Try this" line under whichever lesson feels most connected to what you just wrote, and treat that as this week's actual assignment — not all 4 at once.
The practices from this edition
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Run this for seven days
Identify one career ask you've been delaying until you feel more confident, and make it this month regardless of how confident you feel.