From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People

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Stop people pleasing

Stop people pleasing

From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People

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Stop people pleasing

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- Why are we so concerned about what other people think of us? I mean, a little is understandable but for a lot of us, we're so worried about what other people think that it stifles our creativity, and it saps our courage, and keeps us from making a real difference at work. It's paralyzing to constantly filter every decision you make through the lens of what your peers, or your boss, or sometimes just random strangers will think about it. Now, that's a lesson Richard Feynman learned while standing at his wife's hospital bed. Now, if you don't recognize that name, Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 but publicly, he was probably best remembered as the guy who solved the mystery of why the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. Which he did, by the way, by refusing to go along with the investigation plan that NASA had approved, and that the US Congress had sent him and 11 other people to conduct. So, was Feynman just born brave? Well, yeah…

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