#49 The Benefits of Moving Up in Rank (@Okosan)
I spoke with @Okosan on Zoom the other day.
It was during the pre-event for the "Casual Study Group" for government employees (current and former) (hosted by Hitomachi Inc.)
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@Okosan is in charge of work related to long-term care insurance.
She was promoted to section chief last fiscal year.
She told me that she reads my articles during her lunch break.
I'm so happy!!
Since we are both middle managers, we inevitably end up talking about work.
She mentioned, "When you move up in rank, you often feel the difficulties that come with it."
Oh, I know, I know exactly what you mean.
The benefit of moving up in rank is
that your perspective naturally changes.
"I realized after reaching my current position that
the boss who didn't help me back then
must have been overwhelmed,"
@Okosan said.
This realization heals the following versions of yourself:
• Your past self who wasn't helped when things were tough.
• Your current self who wants to help but is too overwhelmed to reach out.
For example,
• Someone who sits silently facing their documents all day,
• Someone who pretends not to notice when a subordinate is in trouble,
even when you see them, you can think, 'This person is also doing their best.'
Also,
if you don't have the capacity, you don't have to reach out.
You can just think, 'I'll leave the credit for helping someone'
to someone else.'
In this way, you stop blaming others
or blaming yourself.
It is something you realize when your perspective rises.
When you become able to manage your own mood,
that good mood spreads to those around you,
and before you know it,
within a one-meter radius of yourself,
you will be able to work surrounded by people in a good mood.
Who should be the governor,
how to think about a female emperor,
how to deal with the gender gap,
these are things that each person should think about, but
first, the people within that one-meter radius should think about them.
Rather than that,
how you want to be happy
with the people around you,
I think it is much more constructive
to think about that.
Moving up in rank is a source of stress.
But through my dialogue with @Okosan,
I gained a wonderful mindset.