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Career advice: ditching people-pleasing improved my job
Original: I've always been a people-pleaser. I got better at my job when I stopped caring about being liked.
A Business Insider essay describes how a lifelong people-pleaser improved at work after letting go of the need to be liked by everyone. The writer says prioritizing being agreeable had come at the cost of honest decisions and effectiveness, and that focusing on doing the job well rather than on approval made her better at it. The piece taps into a wider conversation about boundaries, burnout and assertiveness at work.
Why now: Ongoing workplace-culture debate about boundaries and assertiveness makes first-person confessions about overcoming people-pleasing resonate widely.
Evidence
- I've always been a people-pleaser. I got better at my job when I stopped caring about being liked. · Business Insider
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