Work & Life, part 3

RACHEL FEINTZEIG spent 11 years obsessed with work, and says she’s picked up a tip or two as she wrote about careers and leadership. “Here’s the best of what I’ve learned,” she wrote by way of introduction to list of eleven pieces of advice. I hope you’ll find them as interesting as I did —

Be that one The colleagues I’ve always envied most were the ones who projected a natural confidence and breeziness while killing it at their jobs. They probably won’t respond to your non-urgent email until tomorrow. They’re busy doing the stuff that matters. Less harried, they project a certain optimism and make work look…fun?

I believe in hard work, but I don’t think you get anywhere from simply grinding it out. Brag well, about yourself and others. Test out some tenets of slow productivity, ike alternating intense work periods with quiet recharge time. 

And ditch the insecurity, the voice in your head that says you’re a flake. Companies run on insecure overachievers who prioritize work above all else. Often, it only ends up serving the company.