Episode 74: Soft Skills and Mental Health For Security Professionals

In this episode, we discuss soft skills and mental health for security professionals.

Soft Skills

• self-awareness
• Gumption (initiative & resourcefulness)
• Autodidactic (self-educate)
• Empathy
• Patience
• Determination
• Communication - This is one to hit heavily
  • Written & Spoken
  • read the room
• Creativity (BS-ing)
• Attention to detail
• Curiosity

Mental Health

• do you truly enjoy/love what you do?
• work-life balance
• change the definition of "success"
• give yourself a break/don't be so hard on yourself
• schedule time to yourself for escapism
• find a hobby
• don't force inspiration because you can't
• when you're feeling inspired capitalize on it
• stand on the shoulders of giants
• 24-hour exams

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