And as soon as you give up that right then you lose a lot of power. for people who feel that they don't have the power to push back and so they've given up the right to negotiate non-essentials. That is the value proposition of essentialism. What he actually got - his performance reviews went up and he ended that year with one of the largest bonuses of his career. And so he almost thought he would quit the company and then somebody suggested, "No what you need to do is retire in-role, that is, become far more selective about what you would do." what he found is that his stress was going up. So every meeting he's invited to he goes to, every e-mail chain he responds to. That means I have to say yes to almost everyone and everything without really thinking about it." But then that company got purchased by a larger, more bureaucratic firm and so when he went to the company he thought, " I have to be a great citizen. There is an executive that I interviewed for the book based in Silicon Valley who was doing excellent work in one company. Last chapter got pretty speculative - would be interested in thinking more about individual vs kind. Found out about a lot of cool things, like nominal realism and the fact that shared properties will not induce category generalization. I think we have to come back to the reality of trade-offs. Very clear and surprisingly useful (even in 2019) review of the empirical literature on essentialism.
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