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Maureen’s career looks more like the route a school bus takes than an expressway to anywhere. But she’s still having fun, learning a lot, and relishing the chance to share it in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… Sheryl Sandberg suggests you look at your career as a jungle gym, not a ladder. Marshall Goldsmith suggests you thank people for their feedback and decide later what to do with that. Dick Bolles thought you’re meant to enjoy your work.

Stories from the office, chores set to music, a love language of spreadsheets. This edition of Doing What Works is an ode to what Maureen cherishes about her childhood. No show notes this time!

Fifth-degree black belt, martial arts instructor, and international karate competitor Malcolm Dell joins Katie for another edition of Doing What Works. He shares what makes a great teacher, how to move through the world, and what you can do to keep conflict at bay. Here are your show notes… Malcolm does Kimura Shukokai.

As a kid, Malcolm Dell wanted to be a roboticist. As a grownup, his career choices are anything but robotic. As Katie’s guest, he’s a delight. You might have fun learning the reason he joined her for this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… What does a roboticist do? Adaptability is a superpower, as Suzy Welch points out in Becoming You. If you’re a design enthusiast, you’ll probably love Cooper Hewitt.

You don’t know what’s going to make you happy until you try it. The job or the relationship that looks good on paper may not feel so great at, say, ten o’clock on a Tuesday. That’s one reason to say yes to more things, so you can get a better feel for more things. Saying yes is a habit and a mindset. If you practice saying yes to smaller things with low stakes, you might find yourself more willing to take bigger risks. That’s what we hope to inspire in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… Irresistible author Adam Alter [http://adamalterauthor.com/] was one of Katie’s professors at NYU Stern and “say yes” was his advice. “I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to” is from a poem by Alice E. Chase [https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/860.html] entitled “To My Grown-Up Son.” Saying “yes” (and “yes, and”) is a rule of improv [https://medium.com/the-improv-blog/the-first-rule-of-improv-is-yes-and-30e5954240d6]. “If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.” That’s from Dilbert creator Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays]. “Marriage is a big bet. It’s the only bet of its kind, one in which you say, ‘This feels right; I think I’ll change everything.’” That’s from Jerry Seinfeld [https://www.today.com/popculture/seinfeld-turns-25-read-jerrys-best-real-life-lines-1D79884423].