Metadata
- Author:: Camille Fournier
- Full Title:: OPP
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://skamille.medium.com/opp-other-peoples-problems-d7eb174724ee
- Finished date:: 2023-01-07
Highlights
And yet, despite these strengths, you’re often frustrated. You see so many problems, and when you identify those problems, people sometimes get mad. They don’t take your feedback well. They don’t want to let you help fix the situation (View Highlight)
there is no place you can go where you can control everything and fix all the problems, no matter how much you get promoted. There’s always going to be something you can’t fix. (View Highlight)
If you feel tired by the idea of talking to all people, stop! This is a sign that you should not pick this battle! It’s already draining you and you haven’t even started on the path to addressing it. (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2023-02-06
Learning how to pick your battles is also about learning how to pick your company and pick your boss, because your job really shouldn’t be all or even mostly about battles (View Highlight)
That is a good sign that it’s time to find a new job, preferably somewhere that is more in tune with your way of doing things. Life is so much more fun when you have people around you that you trust to solve problems, even the problems you have a lot of opinions about. (View Highlight)