A single friend of mine explained the reason he doesn't go to strip clubs. He said he was in one once (I never got the story behind why he went), when he looked around ,
The book Questions of Character, brings up the same point (without the pole dancing), saying that you should look around at any organization where you work and DON'T assume that you are special. If you are in a Wall Street firm where everyone is concerned only about making more money in any way possible then ask yourself if that is really your main concern as well. The author argues that we aren't as different and special as we might think.
If you are in a tribal organization where everyone comes to work late, leaves early and takes two hours during the day to run personal errands in town, are you really THAT different. Yes, maybe you work 30 hours a week instead of 20. My suspicion is that if you really are the Susie Sainte that everyone tries to believe themselves to be that you wouldn't be able to take working in a place like that and you would quit.
So, take a look around, like my friend in the strip club, and ask yourself if you really belong here.
"And I thought to myself, all of these guys are a bunch of pathetic losers. And then I thought, well, you're in here. You must be a loser, too. And I left and I haven't been in a strip club since."
The book Questions of Character, brings up the same point (without the pole dancing), saying that you should look around at any organization where you work and DON'T assume that you are special. If you are in a Wall Street firm where everyone is concerned only about making more money in any way possible then ask yourself if that is really your main concern as well. The author argues that we aren't as different and special as we might think.
If you are in a tribal organization where everyone comes to work late, leaves early and takes two hours during the day to run personal errands in town, are you really THAT different. Yes, maybe you work 30 hours a week instead of 20. My suspicion is that if you really are the Susie Sainte that everyone tries to believe themselves to be that you wouldn't be able to take working in a place like that and you would quit.
So, take a look around, like my friend in the strip club, and ask yourself if you really belong here.
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