ITL269: One Little Thing That Keeps People from Success
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the impact one seemingly small thing has on our ability to move forward in our careers.
Taking offense can keep you from success.
- When we take offense, it only produces a feeling. You ultimately choose whether you take offense to something or brush it off.
- Offended people often feed off their offense and their anger builds over time—and no one likes to be around angry people.
This is a societal problem on a lot of fronts.
- We live in a world that is increasingly obsessed with how people feel.
- Leaders who have proven their common sense and value can no longer make decisions without threats and demands from people who take offense.
- While we are entitled to our own opinions, we aren't entitled to our own facts.
Tune in to hear the story of a high school that had to change their mascot because it was potentially offensive.
You can also hear more from Andy by subscribing to his new podcast, The Professional Noticer. Just go to AndyAndrews.com/podcast for details.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:16.9 | Thanks for joining us this week. |
| 0:18.4 | And Andy, once again, always happy to have you. Well, thank you, David. I am always happy to have you too. I'm happy to be had or however you want to put it. Or whatever it is. Hey, I have a funny story to tell you real quick. For those of you who have been with us for a long time, you probably heard Andy and I and Matt, we did an episode a few weeks back about Christmas. |
| 0:40.5 | And everybody told their, |
| 0:42.8 | Andy asked us a question, |
| 0:43.9 | what was your most memorable Christmas gift |
| 0:45.3 | or something along those lines? |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, |
| 0:47.1 | you wouldn't believe how many people |
| 0:48.4 | have come up to me in airport and said, |
| 0:51.0 | really? |
| 0:51.8 | Matt wanted construction paper and tape |
| 0:54.5 | it's like yeah i know it sounds weird to me too |
| 0:58.0 | anyway go ahead but yeah so many people have responded about that they really |
| 1:02.3 | enjoyed that episode well one of the things that you and i were laughing about |
| 1:05.6 | was uh how polly and my mother-in-law prefer to do Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, incorrectly. |
| 1:14.9 | Incorrectly. |
| 1:15.5 | And I was in Dallas for Christmas, and I cannot tell you how often my mother-in-law brought that up. |
| 1:22.8 | She said, oh, well, apparently we do things incorrectly, and we should start doing it the correct way. |
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