We recommend: Sandi Metz — 'You Are Insufficiently Persuasive'

You need to be sincere to get what you want

We recently watched an awesome video on developer unhappiness by Sandi Metz where she talks about how we can improved ourselves to help resolve our unhappiness.

Our Thoughts

Developer are unhappy, everywhere, all the time! Luckily, there has been research done to try to understand why that is the case. It turns out that most of the time, we believe that our unhappiness is caused by “other people”.

According to Sandi, this is a problem of persuasion and she explains how by improving the ways in which we treat others, we can help smoothen out our frictions and be happy.

Takeaway

Whatever external factor we may believe to prevent us from doing whatever it is that we wish to do, we always have to power to influence and the solution lies within us.

Call to Action

The next time you’re having a meeting, make the person across you feel important — and do it sincerely.

We also would recommend Dale Carnegie’s book.