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Separate from the crowd!

By Bamboo In The Wind

Imagine what you would be like if workplaces taught you to take risks? 

What is the risk of failing and finding your niche? Miniscule. A lot would be different in your worldview. 

In fact, it would also change how you behaved and what we did eventually!

Instead, workplaces make you risk-averse! Their behavior stems from a set work pattern, defined work objectives, and mechanized testing methods.

The evaluation of success requires reproducing past results and making them comparably better. Better for who? For those who they wish to serve? For those whose help they enlist? Or, for those who work for them?

If workplaces focused on making things better for you, they would offer freedom to experiment and risk-taking.

The implication goes unnoticed. But over time, It dramatically affects your approach to professional and personal aspects of life. You have no skin in the game. 

Risk aversion teaches you to stick to a known path. You see, if you stay the course, you will meet the expectations of your master. Unsurprisingly, it has an impact. It starts to set a distance between work, your best ability, and your involvement.

You begin to veer away! What others ask starts to drive your behavior and actions. It is a fact of life. Compliance alone does not give the kick of doing your best the way freedom to experiment and risk of failing will. Workplaces learn the hard way. And worse, workplaces are made up of many "YOU." 

But do you know what you need from yourself? How to make the most of the opportunity to work? How to deal with an environment that does not tap into your best?

By offering, questioning, and asking! That is how organizations understand what you need from them.

Separating from the crowd requires connecting, listening, and volunteering yourself!

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