Introduction Starting a new company is often treated as a learning process for your job. You learn the systems, understand your responsibilities, attend training sessions, and become familiar with company procedures. But there is another lesson that can have an even greater impact on your success: learning the culture. The biggest mistake people make in a new company is thinking they are only learning the job. In reality, they are also learning how the organization communicates, makes decisions, rewards performance, and gets things done. The fastest top performers understand this early. They do not just learn processes. They learn how the company actually works. One simple way to understand this is through the 3-Lens Framework. The 3-Lens Framework 1. What Gets Rewarded? Every company has certain behaviors that leaders value, even if those behaviors are not clearly written in a job description. During your first 90 days, pay attention to what gets recognized in m...
Introduction Social anxiety is a disorder in which you suffer from a long-term fear of social situations. It is more than just shyness rather it's a fear that affects our everyday activities, relationships, and self-confidence. It does not go away. The spotlight effect is even worse for people with social anxiety as has a huge impact on your ability to work. People feel uncomfortable around others and feel embarrassed all the time. Spotlight effect and its examples The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias in which a person believes that the world is always watching him/her. In it, a person overestimates how much people notice him and thinks that people are paying much more attention to him than they actually do. In the spotlight effect, you feel like every move that you are making is under the microscope of the public eye that highlights your successes and failures, both. Very common examples of the spotlight effect include various situations like when you realize that your zipper ...