Callum Borchers

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1,301 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2022 last heard Jan 2025

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · What You Can Learn From the ‘Happy Warrior’ in Your Office · 6 Nov 2024 podcast

And so what benefit do they see in always being upbeat? voice-verified

Some of it just comes down to their own happiness in the job, right? voice-verified

So they say, this helps me stay in a better headspace. voice-verified

I feel like I perform better when I'm not bogged down by feelings of negativity. voice-verified

But there's also an external benefit as well. voice-verified

I'm thinking of a fellow named Kenneth Eli, who's a civil litigator of an adversarial profession by nature. voice-verified

And he said, being an affable person, I like to think, can help get my client and maybe the opposing counsel warmed up a little bit. voice-verified

to the idea of making a deal. voice-verified

And so there can be a practical reason to take on this happy warrior persona as well. voice-verified

Some of these folks feel like it actually helps them get better results. voice-verified

It's in the title of a more than 200-year-old poem by William Wordsworth, The Character of the Happy Warrior. voice-verified

And it's actually a quite long poem, but there's a certain passage that several people that I spoke with kind of latch on to. voice-verified

And it describes a happy warrior as someone who, if he rise to station of command, rises by open means, and there will stand on honorable terms. voice-verified

But what they take away from that... voice-verified

is to say it doesn't mean I'm some kind of pushover, right? voice-verified

Don't mistake me for some happy-go-lucky person who doesn't care. voice-verified

I'm ambitious, right? voice-verified

I want to rise to station of command. voice-verified

I'm just going to do it by playing fairly. voice-verified

There's not going to be all this kind of like sneaky subterfuge behind the scenes. voice-verified

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