Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Radical Cander podcast. I'm Kim Scott, author of Radical Cander and co-founder of Radical Cander,

and I'm Jason Rosoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander. And I'm Amy Sandler, Chief Marketing Officer

of Radical Cander, a Cander coach, and I'll be your host for the podcast, Radical Cander,

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Humanity. That's a lot of radical candor. I feel like do I need less radical candor?

No, never. Okay, never. You can never have too much radical candor. In fact, we got some really

helpful feedback from one of our listeners who also happens to be my sister,

hi Susan, that there are some folks joining us in season two who might not know what exactly

radical candor is. So first, letting you all know, we've put an explainer of radical candor in the show

notes of each episode, and we will do that going forward. And we thought

it would be a good idea to spend a little bit of time talking about what radical candor is and

what makes it so darn radical. Kim? Sure. So radical candor at one level is a very simple idea.

It's caring personally and challenging directly at the same time.

It's love and truth at the same time. You don't have to choose. You can do both.

So what maybe a good way to explain what it is is also to explain what it isn't.

So sometimes we challenge directly and we forget to show that we care personally.

And that is obnoxious aggression, which is not radical candor. And very often when we realize

we've acted that way, when we realize we've been a jerk, rather than moving the right way on the

care personally dimension of radical candor, we go the wrong way on challenge directly.

And we wind up in the worst place of all, manipulative insincerity. And this is where passive

aggressive behavior, political behavior, toxic workplace, backstabbing behavior happens. And it's

fun to tell stories about obnoxious aggression and manipulative insincerity.

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