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Ditch your shyness; no one gives a damn about it. The saying goes, “it’s not what you know; it’s who you know.” Internal networking is underrated and often looked up to as a time-waster. Even I underrated its potential. Shyness and social anxiety can obstruct you from growing your internal network. But no one cares about your personality type. If you’re at work, you have to be an extroverted introvert. At least for a few hours a day.
How to Get Promoted at Work | Darshak Rana | Medium
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Increasingly, prominent thinkers in the field of leadership studies like Marcus Buckingham are challenging traditional notions of leadership. Their research suggests that presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.
Buddha agreed with modern biology and New Age movements that happiness is independent of external conditions. Yet his more important and far more profound insight was that true happiness is also independent of our inner feelings. Indeed, the more signiɹcance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suʃer. Buddha’s recommendation was to stop not only the pursuit of external achievements, but also the pursuit of inner feelings.
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