I Don't Care

Stop Apologizing for Your Standards

Nicole Haney Season 1 Episode 9

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I wanna talk about something that took me a little bit of time to understand, and it's that when you have standards, that doesn't make you difficult. And it doesn't make you cold. It doesn't make you unapproachable, and it definitely doesn't make you mean. It doesn't matter what people tell you or what people say.

None of those things are true because you have standards and expectations. What it does is, it makes you clear, and for whatever reason, people have gotten real uncomfortable with clarity.  I'm not. I'm not sure why, but somewhere along the way, being direct started being misinterpreted as being aggressive  - and holding people accountable, now all of a sudden means that you are micromanaging. Then looking at someone who has expectations, suddenly that makes them the villain.

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