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How to build positive relationships with colleagues and superiors
How to navigate office politics without compromising your values
How to handle conflicts and difficult situations in the workplace
It can look easy when you view the task without considering the competing interests of outside forces.
It’s hard for an outsider to see how many competing forces can prevent what looks like easy decisions.
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When there is a delay between benefit and cost - as is the case of investing - the benefits always seem easier than they are. When benefits seem easier than they are, people are tempted to take risks that they shouldn't.
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Having goals and systems in place can make a task feel deceptively easy. The downward slide:
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Everything looks easy when you can't see behind the scenes. What you do witness is the end product. You don't see the hard work and many mistakes that went in to produce the final product.
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Thinking you have created your success by yourself is faulty. Thinking your talents directly lead to your results is cognitive dissonance.
Other considerations include opened doors because of others, the input of colleagues who didn't get the credit, and a culture supportive of your unique...
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Easy makes a good story because it is short, persuasive, and comforting. But it is deceiving. Everything worthwhile has a cost.
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When we experience beginners' luck, we might fool ourselves by mistaking luck for skill. It feels amazing because you get excited about your ability to repeat it.
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Often, when you look at a task, you take the outside view: you forget the emotional component. And so something you may actually enjoy seems like a...
Everything looks easy when you can't see behind the scenes. What you do witness is the end product. You don't see the hard work and many mistakes that went in to produce the final product.
It is not outside forces that make us feel something, it is what we tell ourselves that create our feelings.
Many of us want to place blame and responsibility on external objects because it’s easy to do, but the truth remains that all conflicts start internally, in our minds.
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