The easiest way to feel good about your job

Amy Shearn
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1 min readFeb 15, 2021

🙏 Today’s tip: Perform a non-public act of kindness at work.

We’re so Zoom’ed up and Slack’ed up at work now that virtually any act of generosity at work is seen. It’s so easy: We heart; we 100; we +. Or we just put people’s names in all caps without any other context. “SUE!”

This sort of support is a powerful thing. But low-visibility support is just as powerful. Today, try a private act of kindness. Offer someone non-public praise — a DM of simple thanks for a great meeting, or a quick phone call just to say, “Thanks for that killer traffic report.”

(And follow it up with a “1,000,000 PERCENT THIS” in the group thread.)

💖 More from Forge on being, you know, nice:

What Ever Happened to Private Praise?
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How to Do a Lot of Good in Under a Minute
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Practicing Gratitude is Self-Help Advice That Actually Works
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Amy Shearn
Amy Shearn

Written by Amy Shearn

Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person

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