BSP 048: Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future by Erika Andersen

Erika Andersen is the author of Be Bad First: Get Good at Things
Fast to Stay Ready for the Future and talks about the key skill
everyone should acquire: learn things quickly. She says, “In order
to succeed at something, you’ll be bad at it first.” Andersen
argues that people are normally bad at learning new things because
learning new skills requires them to put themselves in a vulnerable
position. She states the way to overcome this is by saying, ‘I’m
going to be bad at this, I’m new at this,’ and give you some leeway
because no one is perfect at a skill they haven’t mastered. In
regards to the c-suite, Andersen says that leaders need to “set the
tone” — if leaders do something that’s outside their comfort zone,
the employees will follow their lead and feel emboldened to step
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