Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life

Design a career and life you actually want.
Ideas on work, confidence, creativity, and designing your own path.

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When you are close to your next breakthrough idea, the devil sends conflict to distract you.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

If you have nothing else, you have your words.

Speak it into existence.

Everything else will catch up.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

Work is the stuff of life.

If you don't enjoy your work, it means there's a misalignment.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

Say less. Eat less. Do less.

I'm really finding that less is more.
Not in and of itself.

But because less in these areas usually leads to more in the areas that really matter.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

The only way to defeat imposter syndrome is to work through it.

Do the thing over and over and over again.

You will eventually become that person completely.

Imposter syndrome is the legitimate voice of amateurism.

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Hire people to do what they do best, so you can do what you do best.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

It takes time to build stamina and conviction.

During the period of building reps, don't accept the designation of an "imposter."

Tell yourself "I'm learning." Nobody despises a student.

That's noble. It allows you to be honest while developing mastery.

Humility and self-awareness are themselves grounds for authority.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

My brother used to say the best way to assess a barber’s skill was to look at his own haircut.

Don’t take advice from anyone that hasn’t done what they’re recommending you do. That hasn’t achieved the results they’re offering you.

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@Ivanavwastoi26 That’s a totally different context.

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@RobertGreene Honestly, it takes real audacity to feel jealous of people whose work ethic you don’t have. It’s morally criminal.

People who walk hard don’t have time to feel envy. Instead, they feel inspired by other achievers.

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@RobertGreene I have to admit this. I used to feel jealous of global stars.

I remember telling my twin brother once that I felt jealous of Burna Boy.

He said “Then shut up and work hard to get where he is.”

I’ve been on it since.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

If it’s admiration you want, don’t ask for feedback.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

Stay active on X. By sharing knowledge, you reinforce what you know, and keep yourself accountable to a lifestyle of growth.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

I genuinely believe success comes to us when we’re ready for it.

Many people claim to desire success. But a close inspection of their lifestyle and choices doesn’t align with their stated desire.

Pursuit is the proof of desire. Those who truly seek? They find.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

I started a business because I realized my corporate career wasn’t using me.

I was getting paid. I wasn’t growing.

The free market demands real effort. And real growth only comes from true exertion.

I’m deeply grateful for the courage to keep going. It’s tough in the moment but the dividends will be worth it for life.

Whatever your dream is, start working on it today.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

@RobertGreene AI has made sameness rampant. The only way you can actually stand out is by standing firmly on what makes you, you.

“Be yourself. Everything else can be prompted.”

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

@ProfFeynman I’ve failed in public for long enough that I no longer have shame as a rate limit.

From here, it’s just me versus my potential.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

Most of us who are naturally thoughtful need to do more and think less.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

@russellbrunson Dialogue starts with identifying who you are speaking to, and determining what the agenda is.

To market effectively, you must operate from calm intelligence.

[Dr. Taiwo | Design Your Career & Life @lifebydesgn]

@RobertGreene The scholarship of success in life is paid by the deep desire to learn / grow.

That alone sponsors the tenacity, the discipline, the resilience to keep going.

If you have such strong desire—congratulations. You already have what matters.

Everything else is a matter of time.