The Surprising Question That Could Make or Break Your Next Big Opportunity
The Singapore role would have disrupted all of that. Not because the company was bad or the work wasn’t valuable, but because the opportunity fundamentally misaligned with how I’m built.
The cost of the wrong yes
I’ve watched too many people say yes to the wrong opportunities, and the pattern is always similar. At first, there’s excitement and novelty. Then comes the slow erosion – they start feeling tired in ways that sleep doesn’t fix, they become irritable with the people they love, they lose the spark that made them good at what they do in the first place.
