Warren Buffett offers 3 of the best career advice you'll hear today

Warren Buffet knows a bit about wealth investing. The Oracle of Omaha also knows a lot about how to build a successful career and live a more successful life.

Here are three useful tips to consider for your personal and professional development:

1. Do the thing you love.

Buffett once taught at the University of Florida's business school and gave students sage advice that you don't hear much in the cutthroat business world: find a job you love. “You really should take a job that, if you were independently wealthy, that would be the job you would take,” Buffett said in his speech. "You'll learn something, get excited about it, and jump out of bed. You can't miss it."

In other words, choose a job and career that aligns with your sense of purpose: make it a calling and a mission in life. So money serves a greater purpose: impacting human lives and making the world a better place.

Buffett said, "I love every day. I mean, I tap dance here and I only work with people I love. There's no job in the world that's more fun to run Berkshire, and I consider myself lucky to have been where I am."

2. Do the things you are good at.

One of Buffett's best tips is pure common sense but a good reminder to stay in your lane. He advises that success largely depends on knowing your own strengths and weaknesses:

You don't have to be an expert at everything, but it's very important to know where the perimeter of that circle of what you know and what you don't know is, and to stay on top of it. inside of it.

To expand on Buffett's quote, it's about capitalizing on the things you do well while avoiding the risks that come from trying things outside of your scope. It's just about exercising your strengths and skills, but also about avoiding wasting valuable time and energy chasing after things outside your wheelhouse.

3. Learn and practice good habits.

Buffett advised students to catch and change bad habits before they make you worse. He told them, "You can get rid of it a lot easier at your age than at my age, because most of the behaviors are habitual." He added, "The shackles of habit are too light to feel until they're too heavy to break."

Bad habits can be changed at any age or life stage in your professional journey, and hopefully before they become "too big to break". But there is one thing that will make the change much easier. It's resisting making the wrong choices because of your current environment, existing patterns, and the people you associate with.

These things can trigger unwanted thoughts and actions, causing you to do the opposite of what you should be doing to build a successful career and life.