Informal life advice from Stanley Tucci, “the best-dressed man in isolation.”

COOPERATION 101

Cooperation is about listening when you want to be heard and finding the best way, not in having your own way.

VERSATILITY 101

The state or quality of being useful for or easily adapted to various tasks, styles, fields of endeavor.

ADAPTABILITY 101

We must adjust to any situation at any given time when it is needed.

Learning can feel exhausting, and exhilarating. It can be especially tiring if we are learning over long periods of time. Sustained attention takes energy. When we travel or learn a new language. We think, hear, and sense in new words.

The kind of lens is required when we move to a new team or organization, where the same words mean something entirely different when interpreted through a different set of values.

This poem is a nice reminder of the cycles of learning and the small things that give us the energy to sustain the journey.

RELEVANCE 101

Relevance is the result of being both highly skilled and highly valued.

“The work of the world is common as mud.

Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.

But the thing worth doing well done

has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”

ATTENTION TO DETAIL 101

Attention to detail is the ability to focus attention on problem-solving toward a thorough and accurate outcome—regardless of the task.