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HR COUNCIL

Career Conscious

Chandramouli Venkatesan tells us how to build Anti-Fragile Careers.
I have been observing what makes people successful in two years back; no major improvement is visible”. Hence I

concluded that the single biggest driver to career success was
their careers for many years now. The summary of those
the ability to get better, the pace at which you get better and
observations I distilled down to key principles in my two
books “Get Better at Getting Better” and “Catalyst”.
hence I wrote the book “Get Better at Getting Better”.
We get better based on our experiences, what we do, whom
As I observed peoples careers I noticed that the primary
difference between successful people and less successful we meet, what books we read etc. all these are our experiences.
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difference was successful people have a faster pace of getting learning is equal to what we have abstracted from that
better and continuously improving themselves compared to experience and put into our brain in a way where it is actionable
less successful people. You meet a successful person after in the future. Hence two people can have the same experience
two years and say “wow, this person is a different person in but get better to different extents from that. This ability to get
two years, s/he has improved and gotten better in the last two better is what I call the Get Better Model or GBM. You can
years”. You meet a less successful person in their career after visualize your GBM as a pipe between your experience and
2 years gap and say “this person is the same person I had met your brain. Some of us have a thick pipe and hence we are able

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