Quitting Day & Profanity

It National Quiters Day, the day most people will quit their New Year resolution. Dangerous Dave talks about times it is okay to quit. Plus, is it okay to use profanity at work? Most say "no"!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This, he's deeper in the din with Dangerous Day, Happy
Twitter's Day, Second Friday in January. So when people are
most likely to throw the towel in on their New
Year's resolutions, there are times it actually makes sense to
give up the goal, or at least reassess it. Three
cases where it's okay to quit New Year's resolution. First
of all, when you're motivated by the wrong reasons. Sometimes

(00:22):
we pursue goals just to prove others wrong or sue
our own fear of failure. But when the goal doesn't
align with your core values and needs, it's hard to
stay motivated. Number two is when your goal no longer
resonates with you. Maybe climbing the corporate ladder was important
to you in your twenties and thirties, but now that
you're in your forties, you found spending time with your
family is what really matters. In that case, scoring a
promotion at work wouldn't necessarily be a great goal to pursue,

(00:45):
even if it does have its benefits. And finally, if
you reach for a goal that has exhausted your resources,
you know our capacity for sustained effort isn't infinite. Pursuing
our goals can lead to burnout. By letting go of
resolutions that feel exhausting or impossible can free you up
and give you more space to set more realistic and
achievable goals. I guess my goal was to not have

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a New Year's resolution. So far, so good. Deeper in
the two These days, it seems people are willing to
run their fifty miles everywhere, even at work. I've got
one friend that the F word is. I think his
most used word is about every third word when he's talking,
and it's weird. He's very highly educated as well. Is
it okay to censor people or in the heat of

(01:27):
the moment, it is okay to let the words fly,
even at work. There's a new poll about profanity in
the workplace. Nine percent of people say it's completely acceptable,
twenty three percent say somewhat acceptable. Not everybody is chill
about it though, twenty eight percent say it's not very acceptable,
and thirty one percent said never acceptable. They did a
breakdown or the type of workplaces. They didn't differentiate between angry, aggressive,

(01:51):
or cursing just as a casual conversation profanity, but they
did break it down by demographic profanity far more acceptable
among younger workers than those over the age of sixty five.
People also asked about profanity in front of young children,
five percent say it's completely acceptable, eleven percent said somewhat
not at twenty five percent, and fifty four percent said never.

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Young adults and men were more likely to say it's
okay than older folks or women. And finally, we're asked
if they censor themselves on social media, and thirteen percent
of people say it's completely acceptable to curse within their
own social media posts, twenty four percent, somewhat not very
at twenty six percent, and not at all at twenty
nine percent. Well, the thing is about in our business,

(02:33):
it's just not acceptable. I mean I would really get
in trouble if you heard me saying or or especially
to me again. For another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous Davedlight here