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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor

Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture, Business

4.7 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Kim, Jason and Amy discuss how doing less can lead to more success. Kim recommends creating a proactive forbearance list where you list all of the things you're not going to do. Instead of feeling guilty about not doing the things on your list, celebrate them. This allows you to focus on the things you actually need to get done now. In addition, Jason explains the spoon theory and Amy talks Radical Dandor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Radical Cander podcast. I'm Kim Scott, author of Radical Cander
0:11.1	and co-founder of Radical Cander the company. And I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander.
0:17.7	And I'm Amy Sandler, Radical Cander's chief marketing officer and your host for the podcast, Radical Cander. And I'm Amy Sandler, Radical Cander's chief marketing officer and your host for the podcast,
0:24.3	Radical Cander, How to Kick Ass at Work Without Losing Your Humanity. So Kim, one of the things you were
0:30.7	talking to me about last year, I was working on a lot of competing deadlines, and I was feeling
0:36.9	kind of stressed about how it's going to get
0:38.9	everything done. And you said, I just needed to let things go, splat, which, you know, is a really
0:46.4	interesting term, and it brought a lot of stuff to mine, but can you help me understand what
0:50.7	splat is? Well, if you're juggling too many balls, you've got to drop some of
0:56.0	them. You just got to let them go. So I think there's a song in the movie Frozen about this,
1:02.5	about letting them go. So which my children hate. I understand the difficulty of dropping balls. It is a very uncomfortable feeling.
1:13.4	Sometimes you have to just drop the balls. And that is hard because you may actually drop the
1:19.6	thing that's not the thing you want to drop. You may actually drop the wrong thing. So one of the
1:26.1	things that can help us feel more relaxed to identify what the
1:30.5	higher priority items are, what the lower priority items are, and to consciously drop, to be aware of
1:38.1	what you're dropping, rather than just drop something because you've got too many things in the
1:41.5	air at the same time. When you explain that to me, like it was such a relief.
1:45.7	And not only do you put them on a list, but what your recommendation to me was you should
1:49.6	celebrate the fact that you're not doing the things that are on this list.
1:52.4	It's just as important as getting the things done that are on your actual list of things
1:56.4	that you do want to do.
1:57.5	When you do have a sense of what's important and you can do this sort of
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