Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
It is better to do too much than to do too little.
You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.
When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.
If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
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