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The Cyber Threat Perspective
Episode 74: Soft Skills and Mental Health For Security Professionals
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SecurIT360
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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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