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> Even if the work itself doesn’t ultimately matter, people around you will notice and remember This is counter to my personal experience, as well as that of M
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> Even if the work itself doesn’t ultimately matter, people around you will notice and remember
This is counter to my personal experience, as well as that of Maya Angelou: "At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel." It's supposed to be an inspirational quote, but I find it simultaneously accurate, depressing as hell and subversively instructive: do the best you can of course, but far more important than your work is how "nicely" you do it.
- vlucas 5y agoI think this is encapsulated in the point I am making with that sentence. It may not be the work itself that people will remember, but it's how you do it. If you are consistently someone who can be relied upon to get things done and consistently does them well, people will remember that.
- commandlinefan 5y agoWell, I wish I could say that this matched my own observations, but it seems like somebody who's incompetent but nice will be better remembered than somebody who's effective but brusque.