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#724: Claire Hughes Johnson — How to Take Responsibility for Your Life, Create Rules That Work, Stop Being a Victim, Set Strong Boundaries, and More

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The Power of Literature and Self-Awareness

This chapter explores the role of literature in enhancing self-awareness and understanding the human experience, focusing on impactful works like 'Awareness' by Anthony DeMello and Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse.' Through personal anecdotes and humor, the speakers discuss the significance of revisiting insightful texts and the nuances of feminist literature amidst a male-dominated literary landscape.

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Claire Hughes Johnson currently serves as a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Claire previously served as Stripe’s chief operating officer from 2014 to 2021, helping grow the company from fewer than 200 employees to more than 6,000. Her book is Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building.

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Timestamps for this episode are available below. Resources from this episode: https://tim.blog/2024/02/27/claire-hughes-johnson/

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start

[07:51] Say the thing you think you cannot say.

[13:24] Detoxifying your left-hand column.

[19:59] Victim versus player.

[29:49] Recommended reading.

[36:53] The case for reading fiction.

[44:18] Crafting a working-with-me document.

[52:07] Make the implicit explicit.

[57:29] An Irish Goodbye.