Expectations
"People can sometimes be held hostage by their expectations. They have a dream of something they would like to achieve or a path they intend to follow, but their mindset falls apart when things don't work out how they had hoped.
The key is to reach for an extremely high bar, but to be adaptable enough to reframe the failures, disappointments, and d... See more
The key is to reach for an extremely high bar, but to be adaptable enough to reframe the failures, disappointments, and d... See more
3-2-1: On the danger of a good idea, how to do your best work, and a question to inspire action
As Anne Lamott said, “Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.” We have the tendency to visualize an entire scenario or conversation or outcome, and when things don’t go the way we’d imagined, disappointment can become resentment. This often happens when our expectations are based on outcomes we can’t control, like what other people think, w
... See moreBrené Brown • Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
People with very high expectations have very low resilience
