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#315 Social Influence

Squiggly Careers

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The Inverted U of Personalization in Work

The idea of an inverted U which is how we feel about actually loads of things but I could apply this quite quickly to jobs. This inverted U is to do with our relationship between newness and familiarity and like the how influence affects that so potentially what this is arguing is like when you're first in a new job it can feel really hard because there's a lot There's a lot of newness and particularly where there's complexity  the more complexity there is the less likely there is to be like habits or things you can fall back on or things that feel familiarSo that can feel really really hard and you might not be enjoying thatYou could even be tempted to give up if you were

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