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Earlier this week, we talked about how important your answers to seemingly ordinary questions can be, and it reminded me of one of my favorite responses to a question – of all time.

Back when I was in high school and applying to colleges, I noticed something fascinating on the most competitive schools’ applications.

Harvard’s FAQ section would ask something like:

Their answer: “We always encourage you to take the more challenging course, but, to be blunt, most of our accepted students take the tougher class and get an A.”

BOOM.

I love that response. That’s where my Yes and Yes Principle was born.

Here’s how this works: if you find yourself asking, “Should I do X or should I do Y?” a lot of the time the answer is YES and YES. You should do both X AND Y.

This is a powerful tool for making almost any decision.

“Should I read THIS copywriting book or THAT one?” Answer: Read them both. “Should I go study programming or design?” Answer: Learn them both at the same time. “Should I do more cardio or try the Paleo diet?” Answer: Do both – and see results in half the time.

We create these false THIS or THAT scenarios all the time. And not just for casual choices like what books to read. We limit the major choices in our lives – like our careers – with this mindset.

People write me all the time with questions like:

• “Should I change jobs OR improve the one I already have?”
• “Should I focus on getting more experience OR getting a job I love?”
• “Should I do what I love OR focus on jobs with higher pay?”

The answer to all of these is actually YES and YES!

Yes, you can find your Dream Job. Yes, you can get paid more. And yes you can have it now – not 10 years in the future. (More here.)

I’ll give you an example.

You don’t have to choose with your career

Meet Michelle. She used this idea to find a job she loves AND get paid what she deserves.

Michelle was tired of blasting her resume off to 75 different places, and then waiting…and waiting…but getting no responses.

Using my Find Your Dream Job system, she learned how to beat out people with years more experience than her.

The best part: it didn’t take her decades of slowly climbing the corporate ladder rung by rung. She got her Dream Job – with better pay – in just a few months.

See Michelle’s full story of saying Yes and Yes here.

What false choices are you giving yourself?

I point this out because you don’t have to choose between finding your Dream Job and improving your current one.

You don’t have to decide between doing what you love and getting paid what you deserve.

You can say YES and YES to all of these things.

We’ll dive much deeper into how on my live talk on Monday, 11/14, at 9pm Eastern (see your local time).

I’ll show you how I got job offers at Google, Intuit, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, and more. You’ll learn how thousands of my students find their Dream Jobs – in tons of different industries and in countries all around the world. And you’ll see how this system can work for you too, even if you’re not sure what your ideal career would be.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Have a good weekend,

-Ramit

P.S. I also recorded a bunch of new videos to show you other stories – of students getting their Dream Jobs with little experience, of switching industries, and of getting $5,000 - $25,000 raises. They’re all at the bottom of this page here.