How to Stop Cynicism from Stalling Your Career Growth

I think we are all cynical some of the time, cynical about the people that we work for, the people that we work with, the organizations that we're in. I think that is normal. I think it is noticing, you know, if that cynicism becomes a bit more pervasive and it's it's kind of driving your thinking, it can become really limiting. When we are cynical, we are much more tempted to spend time with people who almost agree with our cynicism.

It's almost like a cynic echo chamber trap. You keep things for yourself because you think, well, that's how I win. You know, almost like, well, I'm not going to share things, I'm not going to give things, I'm going to take and then make the most of it for myself. So it's like, it's selfish, right? It's very I

focused. We all need to like practice giving things up and giving things away and how important that is. If you don't create like a system or a rhythm or a way of doing this, it becomes more of like a, of course I want to be generous and like this really matters to me and it does, but then it doesn't actually come to fruition. Hi, I'm Helen. And I'm Sarah.

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