Chapter 2

Get your mind right

Throughout your career, despite your best efforts and intentions, you will undoubtedly experience setbacks. They will come in the form of disappointments, negative feedback, a failed project or a poor performance review. It’s not a matter of if, but when. At no point in your career will you stop being human, which implies that you will never be exempt from making mistakes. When you enter a new corporate environment, you are placed in unfamiliar situations with no blueprint to tell you how to act in them. So, on a daily basis, you learn by trial and error and deal with different personalities, figuring out how best to work with them. Sometimes these new experiences at work will make you feel badly about yourself, ...

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