My advice to leaders would be to encourage people to take care of as many of their personal goals outside of the project as possible: take a yoga class, visit your family for the holidays, write poetry and post it on your instagram, make time to stay connected with your friends, figure out what sparks joy and make sure you’re getting enough of that. Because the more pieces of people’s plans that have to go through the project (or really any centralized thing), the higher the stakes and the more conflict will arise from people’s paths being in a frequent state of threat (even from aspects that you wouldn’t have guessed would conflict with someone’s implicit/underlying plans).
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So when we see people working on ambitious projects, enduring personal suffering and conflict, working long hours, missing family gatherings or delaying starting a family of their own—I think it’s important to counter the natural inclination one might have to dismiss their drive as foolhardy or to assume that they’ve been duped.
Those seem to be two different sentiments in the same article.
I imaging that the second one was written first in a sense of defending the work. I imagine that then after thinking more and writing the article you came around to the first sentiment.
Ambitious goals are nice but having time for personal goals besides work is important.
Those seem to be two different sentiments in the same article.
I imaging that the second one was written first in a sense of defending the work. I imagine that then after thinking more and writing the article you came around to the first sentiment.
Ambitious goals are nice but having time for personal goals besides work is important.