Alex Goldmark

There are millions of Stephanies everywhere in every industry.

This is the Peter Principle.

It comes from a bestselling book back in the early 70s by a professor, Lawrence J. Peter.

And it was actually, Sarah, kind of a joke.

This one was satire.

And the point that Dr. Peter was trying to make was, look around.

This is the explanation for why so many people are bad at their jobs, why so many mistakes just happen over and over again, and why so many people hate their jobs.

And Stephanie is rare in that she is self-aware enough to know it and admit it and also to do something about it.

Stephanie is fighting the Peter Principle by stepping down from her new bigger job.

She isn't going to quit.

She's going to demote herself.

She went and talked to her boss and she said, hey, I want a job like my old one, the one that I love, the one that I was good at.

Self-demotion, that is one way to beat the Peter Principle.

All right, I'm going to go find Kenny, tell him to come on back in here.

Thanks a lot, Sarah.

The trophy has disappeared again.

With a big smile, because I know I'm going to get a trophy.

We did two episodes on this.

We can link to them back in the show notes.

But the refresher is we love games.