While still a student, we were used to receiving handouts containing all the things we needed to study for the semester. And living life was way easier then.
Just check the right boxes, show up every day in class, and do well in your exams, and that’s it! Job well done.
But now that we are working, perhaps for a company or a research group, we often wonder how to achieve the goal without being spoon-fed all the things we should do.
No one is handing us down any list anymore.
Because it’s now our job to come up with all the ways to help us get to where we’re supposed to go.
And perhaps that’s what keeps others from doing their best at work. Because they feel stuck and incapable of doing something no one has ever done.
Yes, it’s easier to follow what to do and not to do than to clear the path yourself. And it’s easier to become a cog in a system than to be a linchpin.
But remember, you are replaceable when you are a cog in a system.
jessa 