You meet a lot of cool, talented people in this industry who inspire you… and then you meet absolute hacks who make you question everything in life while they’re behind the wheel.

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The thing I try to remind myself with the latter is that they may be creative hacks with minimal talent in that arena…but they presumably must be skilled people people or convincing salesmen or know how to manipulate a situation. Shouldn’t underestimate the power of strategic flattery and/or being pointedly inoffensive.

Still sucks. But helps me reframe.

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It’s rare to find people who are good at multiple types of work. It’s also rare to find people who are happy with what they’re good at and stay in that level. For example there are great creatives who can concept but can’t lead but maybe are good at talking their way into leadership where typically concepting is less of your role and they take on the mantle of bad leaders.

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