Play and curiosity as core values

August 27
34 mins

Episode Description

Mildred Cheng on gut feeling, connecting people, and why feedback matters.

📚What You'll Learn

  1. How running on gut feeling and knowing what you like leads to better decisions than trying to please everyone

  2. Why trust is a self-fulfilling prophecy in teams and organisations

  3. How identity shifts require pruning and loss

✍️ Some Takeaways

  • Feedback is so radical that it feels shocking when it actually happens.

  • Binaries are false idols and everything lives in nuance.

  • Save your compliments and revisit them when doubt creeps in.

  • Work is a construct, what matters is time and the people you spend it with.

Where to find Mildred Cheng

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mildred-cheng/

Where to find Milly

https://www.linkedin.com/in/milly-tamati/

Generalist World Resources:

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qbGzMU...

The Generalist Quiz: https://www.generalistquiz.com/

Essays: https://www.generalistcareer.com/

Upcoming events: https://lu.ma/generalist.events

Positioning Guidebook: https://www.generalist.world/positioning

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