Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Everybody wants to find meaning in their work, and everybody typically wants to understand the reasons behind a decision, and it's important to share, to take like, I've done this myself, where you just make a decision and you move on and you go on to the next decision, and it's actually so, so helpful if you take 10% more energy and time to now bring everyone along around why a certain thing was decided, because it's going to help them, just themselves, make better decisions, because now they have a lot more context about how this decision was made, and they can learn from that moment. So that's partly why it's important. I mean, for me, it didn't come naturally to me. I'm like a pretty, I don't know, I'm a deep introvert. I shy away from many different things and it had to be a learned thing. I think you're also a really good example of something I talk about here and there, is you can be really successful in very different ways. I'm also introverted. I think we're similar on the spectrum of colors or the personality test, and you've been really successful. You can also be incredibly successful as a very extroverted person or someone that's very analytical, and you're a great example of someone that's more reserved and is introverted, as you said. And I think it's important for people to know you can be incredibly successful as a PM, as a huge leader. Totally.…

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