When Repetition Becomes a Warning Sign

What your frustration with “the same questions” is really trying to tell you.

There comes a time in your career where you find yourself repeating yourself. You give the same piece of advice many times, you hear the same question hundreds of times and give about the same answer each time.

You start to reel off the answer perhaps a bit too fast, which does not give the listener time to process what you are saying. You are saying the same thing for the eleventh hundred time, but the listener is hearing for the first time!

The listener will stop you and ask you to repeat and you just might get exacerbated and think the listener is not so “bright”. This is the most important time in your career where you need to reflect on where you stand. Have you become stale in your job? Have you lost interest in what you do? And here is the big one: have you stopped learning your own field of expertise?

The simplest way to keep enjoying your job is to keep learning and expanding your knowledge. The day you think your listener is annoying, is the day you need to stop and reflect on your own path.