Vivian Tu

It's a folder in your email.

And every time something good happens to you, every time you get a pat on the back from another team member from your company, forward it to that folder.

A client says, wow, you know, you did such a great job.

Whatever.

Put it in that folder.

anything that good that happens to you put in that folder.

Because that way, when you go and you have to write those really annoying self-assessments, you can go back and literally look through those emails and be like, oh, remember that time I did that one thing and that thing and that thing?

And now you have quantifiable results that you can point to.

The second piece is the knife and fork piece.

There's a study and it shows that the smartest person is not the one that gets paid the most.

They're like second most paid.

Second or third most paid.

Yeah.

Being smart and being the best employee gets you to a certain point.

But the person that is paid the most is the person that is essentially Mr. or Mrs. Congeniality.

You need to be liked.

You need... And not so much like you have to be agreeable and likable, but like...

People have to think of you.

You gotta be top of mind.

And you have to be, unfortunately, popular around the office.