Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

And so then I had to market to myself . I was like , Candor doesn't work for me and literally chipped away at it . And when the word kind went in front of it , it's been wild .

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

I'm like , I've got a flaw and I'm gonna fucking fix it and I knew what it was , but I didn't , couldn't like get it to your , you know , you can't get it to your fucking tongue . I'm like , it's fucking candor . Fuck .

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

You start challenging yourself to be uncomfortable , like , like to me , uh can I actually , I'm gonna go very vulnerable here . The candor thing happened very simply . I went in , saw an interaction between two former employees on some social network and they didn't like me and I love them .

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

All they can do is take notes and it's super powerful because you get to see how people you actually care about . Not just random people on the internet or whatever about you and your , like , everyone's caught good candor and , and , but because they are in the room , you're still going to be kind . Right ?

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

So I became very visceral to it . Um when I had to wake up four or five years ago and finally , the subconscious became the conscious and I realized that my lack of candor actually was creating a ton of fear at Vader media because people didn't know where they stood and you would have were telling people what they wanted to hear . You're you're avoiding things .