Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast, where every week we talk about a topic to do with work and we hope to give you and we always give ourselves a bit more confidence and control over our increasingly squiggly careers. And all of our podcasts come with lots of things to help you to take action, whether you

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to get this work to you. And today we're going to be talking about the topic of judgment, because it's something that I think it's just kept coming up in Sarah and my's conversation like when we're making decisions and we're thinking about things or

we might be talking about other people that we admire this kind of sense of oh that person's

got really good judgment keeps coming up and we decided we want to unpack it a bit more

because as we'll come on to we think it is a really important skill in a squiggly career

so the first way that we often unpack skills is that we look for a definition.

The definitions we found are a little bit, I don't know, they're not everyday language.

There is a very good article, which is a good read from HBO, which we'll link to in the

pod sheet on the topic of judgment.

And the definition they give is that it's the ability to combine

personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions.

And I do believe it, but it takes a lot of unpacking. And I don't think I'm going to remember that.

So we've tried to find a perhaps more relatable and memorable definition of what we mean when we talk about judgment.

And we weren't successful. So we've not found a definition somewhere else that we thought,

oh, they've got it spot on. What we have noticed, certainly in the area of career development,

there are these big skills where to make progress, you've got to break them down so that you can get better at them.

So if you just think judgment, gravitas, communication, creativity, or if you get some feedback,

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