Are you the note-taker? Learn to be the graceful strategist.

One time, at an internship, my boss took me aside after a meeting.

She said: “Are you going to take notes like that all summer?”
I said: “I don’t know, maybe…. I like keeping notes of what happened.”
She said: “Are you going to keep emailing them to everyone?”
I said: “I can if you want me to….”
She said: “Are you going to take notes and email them to everyone your whole life? …. Is that going to be your role?”

No. Hell no. Note-taking was not going to be my role, thank you. Then she looked at me and said:

“If you don’t want to be seen as the note taker, stop taking notes. When I was younger in my career, I took notes. Then one day, at the end of the meeting, someone said to me: you’ve got the notes right, so I dont have to go to that meeting right? I was the nice little girl who took notes for everyone.”

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