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RE: Happiness Has Become a Duty and a Burden, due to the Philosophy of "Positive Thinking"

in #life8 years ago (edited)

This reminds me of the focus on "improvement points" in performance reviews in corporate Netherlands. Admonishments from the Personel Department to shy, introverted, slightly autistic engineers to be more outgoing, extroverted and happy to give presentations to customers, that sort of thing.

I once responded: "I don't want to discuss improvement points. I'm fine. People are far more productive when you let them do what they are good at and like, while making their so-called shortcomings irrelevant for their position." It was a quote, but I don't remember who first formulated it. Anyway, it didn't go down well at all. I was asked if I thought I was perfect already and couldn't be improved, which wasn't my point at all.

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I wholeheartedly agree, yes. But thinking like that is indeed not very popular in the corporate world.