Two shoulder advisors I have found helpful this year:
Daniel Filan: has a knack for asking ‘trivial’ or ‘obvious’ questions in really situations that end up really opening up or clarifying what’s happening. (It’s part of why he’s a good podcast interviewer at AXRP.) I’ve started to anticipate in my conversations where Daniel would ask a question, and asked it myself, and gotten great results out of it.
Gimli, son of Glóin, from the Lord of the Rings: I read the trilogy for the first time in January, and in many situations where I’ve been tempted to have long drawn-out passive aggressive interactions with coworkers or wander into a pit of despair, I noticed what he’d do: he’d just get on with the work. This has been very helpful.
One of mine is Athos from ‘Twenty years after’. I admire his dedication, plainness of speech, valor, level-headedness, ability to just not defend things he finds unworthy of defence even when it would be to his advantage, etc. At most, he “says” something like, “Shall we? Yes, we shall.”—and this is enough.
Two shoulder advisors I have found helpful this year:
Daniel Filan: has a knack for asking ‘trivial’ or ‘obvious’ questions in really situations that end up really opening up or clarifying what’s happening. (It’s part of why he’s a good podcast interviewer at AXRP.) I’ve started to anticipate in my conversations where Daniel would ask a question, and asked it myself, and gotten great results out of it.
Gimli, son of Glóin, from the Lord of the Rings: I read the trilogy for the first time in January, and in many situations where I’ve been tempted to have long drawn-out passive aggressive interactions with coworkers or wander into a pit of despair, I noticed what he’d do: he’d just get on with the work. This has been very helpful.
One of mine is Athos from ‘Twenty years after’. I admire his dedication, plainness of speech, valor, level-headedness, ability to just not defend things he finds unworthy of defence even when it would be to his advantage, etc. At most, he “says” something like, “Shall we? Yes, we shall.”—and this is enough.