…is a plaguing illness in some work places.
“I tried so many times, but they never change so I’ve given up”
(Ever thought you could try to go about it another way?)
Often you come across people who are fixed in their ways or views, and apparently can’t see how they are wrong or affect people negatively. Often so much is left unsaid, or talked about destructively behind peoples backs, rather than constuctively.
One of the most useful things one of my last bosses said to me, in the context of trying to bring about change of viewpoint, was:
“Just keep chipping away”
In other words: be persistent. (The opposite of defeatism).
But the image of “chipping away” is more powerful to my mind - the image stays there much longer than it would have had I been told to “be persistent”.
Amateur office place behavioural scientist, signing off.
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