The Audacity of Choosing A Way of Working That Is Worthy of Us
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The Audacity of Choosing A Way of Working That Is Worthy of Us
A sense of worthiness inspires us to be vulnerable, share openly, and persevere.
Brené Brown • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Margaret Leigh and added
3-2-1: On self-worth, how to have style, and how to build a great career
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We learn early in life that any affiliation—with family and friends, at school or in the workplace—requires proving that we are worthy. We are under pressure to compete with each other, to get ahead, to stand out as intelligent, attractive, capable, powerful, wealthy. Someone is always keeping score.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
But sometimes that voice of insecurity and unworthiness arises, and I listen to it. Suddenly writing or preparing a presentation is linked to winning or losing love and respect and my entire experience of working shifts. The wanting self takes over. While I always intend to give a wholehearted effort, now that effort is wrapped in fear. I’m anxious
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Any way we want to think about our work, any aspirations we may have, are perfectly fine – as long as we recognize and take responsibility for them.
George Saunders • Art vs. Commerce
Keely Adler added
Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I p... See more
Yancey Strickler • What if You Gave Yourself the Gift of Inner Acceptance?
To sit with this stark claim can at first seem frightening—it is not easy to let go of the illusion that our worth is something we work for—but it is also potentially extraordinarily liberating: we no longer have to compete with others in order to gain the confidence that we matter.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
To sit with this stark claim can at first seem frightening—it is not easy to let go of the illusion that our worth is something we work for—but it is also potentially extraordinarily liberating: we no longer have to compete with others in order to gain the confidence that we matter.