Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly show where we talk about the ups and downs and ins and outs of Squiggly Career and share insights, ideas and things that you can take action with so you can take back a bit of control of what might be going on for you at work right now.

And we always find that it is quite cathartic for both Sarah and I too

because a lot of these topics that we talk to you about are things that we are going through as well.

So today is part two of our squiggly soft skills series.

Very hard to say.

But hopefully it's proving useful so far.

We covered originality last

week. Today we'll be talking about critical thinking and then we're going to move on to social

influence, mainly because I think Helen and I really intrigued about what that is, we don't

really understand it, and stress tolerance. So those are the four skills that we're going to be

covering. And we were inspired by the World Economic Forum of Soft Skills that they thought were going to be particularly useful by 2025.

So we've used that as a bit of an anchor.

And similar to the series we did back in the summer in 2022, each week we both read a different book about the topic.

And then we don't talk to each other

before it.

We do make sure we've not read the same book, which very nearly happened last week, which

shows how organised slash disorganized that we are.

And as we go through the podcast, we quickly talk about a quote, so one quote that's really

stood out to us from the book.

We talk about three things that we've learned, so some insights

that we want to share with you so that you get a feel for whether it might be an interesting

thing for you to read or dive a bit deeper into. We'll then talk about an action that you can take

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