The Monster Whisperer

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Издательство: Альпина Диджитал

Возрастное ограничение: 16+

Жанры: Бизнес-книги, Иностранные языки

Фрагмент книги «The Monster Whisperer»

“Monsters” Are Always Other People, Never Us!

1. TEFI (Russian: ТЭФИ) – an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television.

Preface

“Are you sure the word ‘monster’ won’t offend anyone?” my literary agent, Nastya Dyachenko, asked cautiously as we were discussing the manuscript of this book.

“Oh, come on, Nastya, of course not! None of the readers will take it personally. ‘Monsters’ are always other people, never us!”

“Well, if you’re sure…”

“Oh, absolutely! Take me, for example. For fifteen years I ran editorial teams in television and magazines. All the time I was convinced I was the gold standard when it came to managing people. Then I was stunned to discover that two people on my team had suffered so much because of me that they later went to therapy just to find closure.”

“Monsters” are always other people, never us!

I remember one summer when a friend of mine, a restaurateur, and I spent the entire season complaining to each other about our respective “monsters.” She complained about a difficult client; I complained about an unbearable boss. An entire summer! Wasted! Complaining! In the end, I left a job where everything had suited me except my boss, while my friend walked away from a lucrative contract and ended up bedridden with a hypertensive crisis.

Now I know with complete certainty: the problem wasn’t our “monsters.” It was us. Instead of wasting an entire summer talking about things we couldn’t change and weren’t willing to accept, we should have been asking ourselves how we needed to change so that our “monsters” would turn into regular people we could actually work things out with.

And there’s one more thing I know for sure now: finding the answer probably wouldn’t have taken us more than a couple of weekends.

You’ve probably heard the statistic that the average person spends a third of their life at work. Work is where so many of our hopes and aspirations are invested: our ambitions and dreams, our need for recognition and acceptance, “dreaming of bigger things.”

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