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Squiggly Careers

#157 How to prevent pessimism and practice optimism at work

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode Helen and Sarah discuss why optimistics do better at work (and in life) and the difference between expectant and explainer optimists. And together they ask the question if optimism is a skill we can all learn what does this look like in practise? We finish the episode sharing 5 practical actions listeners can take to add some optimism into your day to day work and over the course of your career. Don't forget, you can join our weekly PodPlus sessions where we share frameworks and models you can put into action. These 30 minute, interactive Zoom sessions are free to join and you can register for them here: https://www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm Helen Tupper and you're listening to the squiggly careers podcast.

0:08.1

Each week we talk about a different topic to do with work and discuss practical ideas and actions

0:12.5

to help you develop in your career and be successful in this increasingly squiggly world of work.

0:18.3

And this is episode 157 and I say it like that because we've actually

0:24.3

had a little bit of feedback from new people that have found the podcast and said, I really like it,

0:29.7

but I'm finding it a bit overwhelming. That's 150 plus episodes and I don't quite know where to start.

0:36.6

So we tried we trialled something

0:38.2

last week, which was personal playlists and it was on our Instagram, which is just at amazing

0:42.5

if you've not kind of gone there yet. But we said to people, look, we've had this feedback about

0:46.4

it being overwhelming. Would personal playlist help where you give us a challenge that you've got

0:51.2

in your career at the moment and we pick the three podcasts that

0:54.5

we think would help you the most and we had so many messages from people who said yes that would be

0:59.1

amazing so what we've done is i think there must be about eight or nine we took the eight or nine

1:04.4

topics that people most requested so you know trying to find a new job starting a new job

1:09.6

relationships with people,

1:11.4

building my brand and making my strength stand out. We took the nine that were most popular

1:16.1

for people that got in touch with us and have created nine personal podcast playlists.

1:21.2

And it's on our Instagram and it's under the highlight section of our Instagram.

1:24.9

We're just direct messages and we'll send you there. But go there. If you're struggling to navigate the podcast, definitely go there. But also,

1:31.5

don't forget that if you would like a personal podcast playlist from the Squiggly Careers

1:35.7

podcast, you can just get in touch with us. So drop us an email, Helen and Sarah at

1:40.3

squigglycareers.com. Tell us, like, what your career challenges. And then what we'll do is we'll

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