A short monologue advising professionals to pause and define clear end goals before starting tasks. The speaker argues much workplace pressure is self-imposed (cites ~80%) and recommends asking clarifying questions—purpose, audience, main message, deadline—to avoid unnecessary work, duplication, and overwhelm, especially in large companies.
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You click pause. You ask yourself, what is the end goal? Because if there is no end goal, there's no point of starting that task. And so sometimes it's very hard. The pace is extremely harsh, even more difficult for people who work for very big companies and you come from one of them. I worked for a big company as well, because everything is urgent, everything is important. There is so much pressure. But the fact is that probably 80% of that pressure we put on ourselves. Ourselves. And one key skill that I recommend here to everyone and the one that I focus on in my framework, is to ask more questions. In the workplace, we don't ask enough questions. If your boss tells you, I need this report, we say, okay, and we start doing it. We don't ask, what is it for? Who is it for? What is the main message that you want to communicate? When do you need it? Because there is a big chance. When I started doing that, I realized that 80% of the time, I've already had the report. I didn't need to do this from scratch because it's always the same information. But because we don't ask enough questions, we say yes too quickly, and then we overwhelm, outsource.