Hi, I'm Amy Sandler, host of the Radical Cander podcast.

We're thrilled to introduce you to our new radically candid mini episodes.

These bite-sized shows feature Kim giving radical candor tips.

They're between five to ten minutes long and will be released in between regular episodes.

Our first mini, it's a six-minute crash course in Radical Kander.

Enjoy it with a snack.

Hi, I'm Kim Scott, and I'm the author of Radical Kander.

It's a very simple idea, and if you can put it into practice,

it will help you do the very best work of your life

and build the best relationships of your career.

All I mean by radical candor is care personally and challenge directly at the same time.

Why is that so complicated?

To explain why I'm going to offer you a radical candor framework, a two-by-two

framework, all of life's hardest problems, really, can be boiled down to a good two-by-two framework.

Care personally challenged directly. Let's take each dimension in turn. First of all, care personally.

This is what I think of as the give a damn dimension of radical candor. And what happens

here begins when we're about 18, 19, 20 years old. The problem begins then. We're right at that

moment in our lives, we get our first job, but our egos are maximally fragile, and our personas

are beginning to solidify. And right at that moment, someone comes along

and says, be professional. And for an awful lot of us, we sort of translate that to mean to leave

your emotions, leave your true identity, leave your humanity, leave your humanity, leave everything

that's best about you at home and show up at work like some kind of robot. And you can't possibly care personally if you're showing up at work like some kind of robot.

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