You're not failing. It's just hard.
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You're not failing. It's just hard.
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UX is hard. Product design is hard. And trying to do good work inside organizations full of competing priorities, politics, fear, and resistance? Sometimes it's downright exhausting.
But somewhere along the way, we've convinced ourselves that if we're good enough at what we do, people will always listen. That if our recommendations get ignored, our ideas get rejected, or our work gets compromised, we must be doing something wrong.
That's bullshit.
In this episode, Joe talks about why friction isn't necessarily failure, why we take organizational dysfunction so personally and how to stop measuring your professional worth by outcomes you can't always control.
Because sometimes the fact that the work is hard means you're doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing.
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