

What is Radical Candor? Radical Candor 6-Minute Crash Course 3 | Mini
May 13, 2021
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Misinterpreting Professionalism
- Professionalism is often misinterpreted as suppressing emotions and true selves at work.
- Kim encourages bringing your humanity to work and building real human relationships.
Willingness to Piss People Off
- Challenging directly is also important, although we’re taught not to say anything if we don’t have anything nice to say.
- Kim argues it's your job to speak up at work, although it’s difficult due to this conditioning from childhood.
Radical Candor as a Compass
- Use the Radical Candor framework as a compass to guide conversations, not to label people.
- Avoid writing names in quadrants; instead, use it to understand how your words land.