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I had one guy who was serious about this and I learned a lot through that: he sincerely asked this, but differently: “What are the things you are working on to be better at?”

At first, I was kinda startled and couldn’t answer really, tried to bullshit him like the answer I gave above. He called it though and said that he is disappointed by such an answer and that he’d expect everybody to work on 2-3 things. Otherwise, he concluded, there is a lack of introspection to be assumed. Fair point, I thought



Introspection is analysing oneself, it does not mean taking actions about it, IMO.


The hiring filter in that case seems to be for people willing to take actions based on their self-analysis.




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