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I fit into spaces which already exist and contort myself to fit a shape which has been allocated for me.
“If you feel unmotivated at your job, it’s time for some tough love: you’ve probably given up on learning.”
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
“But real achievement at work requires going one step beyond emotional intelligence: you need to learn to be reasonably emotional. This means matching how you communicate your feelings to the specific situation. To do that, you need emotional fluency—the capacity to productively sense emotion, and to know how and when to translate what you feel into healthy action.”
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
“Why is it that when we think of professionalism, we immediately jump to the idea that we should suppress everything we feel?”
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
“But the best way to decide what to learn is to take a step back and figure out why you want to learn. What do you want to accomplish?”
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
― No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
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