Sometimes the most principled thing is to leave an organization before it damages your ability to do good work elsewhere. The speaker describes months of grief after an AWOL administrative separation, arguing that managing disappointment means accepting groups won't change to match your values, not lowering your standards.
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Sometimes the most principled thing that you can do is leave before the system damages your ability to serve elsewhere. And if you're just out there on your own as an individual, I want you to find sustainable ways to add value while maintaining your integrity. And through that process, I want you to develop clear exit strategies when you start to see that alignment is really becoming impossible. Now there is a key insight that I really want to leave you with. Managing the disappointment reality isn't about giving up, and it's not about lowering your standards. When you realize that groups won't change to match your values, there is a grieving process involved. I mourned for months going through that ridiculous AWOL administrative separation time. What's involved is a mourning of the loss of this ideal alignment that you had hoped for.