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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 00:36:01 JST Cat Hicks

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   Me: "You know, short term fixation on high performance, which obviously none of us want"

   The world: WHAT

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 00:36:01 JST Cat Hicks

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     In truth though, a LOT of what we have learned about "what creates long-term achievement" can be summed up as "pretty much not what we think." But like, this is rational....long-term achievement would be plentiful and common and easy to access and probably people like me wouldn't be studying it if the things that drove it DID easily match our conceptions about it 😭

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 00:36:01 JST Cat Hicks

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     In retrospect it was SO funny going from doing PhD research on how we form beliefs about achievement deriving from effort vs from essentialist ability and how important it is to not act like skills and abilities are innate and "pre-determined"....

     ....into a tech company that LOUDLY talked about people having the right "DNA" and "genes" to succeed there (was this the influence of the human genome project, I felt it was??) 😭 I suffered

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 00:36:02 JST Cat Hicks

     A real challenge for me in this life is that for years and years because of my areas of research I have it firmly in my brain that "performance orientation" is generally speaking a pretty maladaptive thing and I am used to thinking of "performance cultures" quite negatively in terms of, this is a place where you don't feel you can be authentic or show your effort (only outcomes) and that's a known bad thing but in business, uhhhh.....the word performance is MUCH more positive 😂

     Matthew Lyon and esmevane, sorry repeated this.
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     Ana Hevesi (anthrocypher@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 02:02:39 JST Ana Hevesi

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     @grimalkina I was having a conversation some years back with someone with a neuroscience PhD and a psych background. I acknowledged that I was feeling real insecurity about having recently joined “a really high performing team”.

     She says to me “You know who else is high performing? Dogs in dog shows.”

     I will never stop thinking about that.