The End of Year | The End of Fear
Life is short. Entering 2024, time to leave behind your fear and risk-aversion instincts and try something different. Here are some tips.
This year I’ve written notes, made career moves, and made decisions that many would consider risky, even career suicide. As a result, I’ve received numerous pings lauding my fearlessness, including random folks on the streets of US/India. So I thought, on the last day of the year, let me expand a bit on this perception of fearlessness. Instances of purported fearlessness:
Writing publicly about something you find troubling at workplaces.
Changing jobs or job profiles from comfort zone to unknown territory.
Having a candid career conversation with your management chain.
Having uncomfortable, tough conversations with your reports.
Building aggressive exec plan for your team and leading by example.
Aggressively negotiating the terms of a job offer.
I’ve actually done all of the above in 2023, and without sugar-coating, since that can reduce the impact of doing these.
In reality, I am still quite fearful about certain things (especially spiders), and most of the time I am taking calculated risks …