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Why I Dread Being Asked What I Do Outside Work

Why I Dread Being Asked What I Do Outside Work

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I could stand up and talk about our business for hours. Ask me what I enjoyed outside work, and suddenly I had nothing to say. At a team-building session, I kept checking the time, hoping we wouldn't get around to me.


Everyone seemed to have hobbies, trips and stories I couldn't compete with. I spent a long time wondering whether I was just boring. Eventually, I started questioning what I'd been counting as an interesting life in the first place.


00:00 Waiting for my turn in the circle

00:34 The cofounder with nothing to say

01:04 Giving an answer I cannot remember

01:59 Was it the wrong question?

02:46 What a small story can do

03:47 Remember the moments that stayed with you

04:20 Why I share these stories


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I'm Art Harrison. I tell stories about work, money, starting businesses, and starting over, usually because something didn't go the way I thought it would.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheArtHarrison

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