Posted by
Jeevan Sivasubramaniam,
Managing Director, Editorial,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.
The video is a tongue-in-cheek depiction of how people often wait for others to take care of matters or fix things when the solution is so simple that they could do it themselves.
Stepping up is not always easy, but this video shows how we are so used to always thinking in terms of things being "someone else's problem" that we often seem helpless in even the simplest of situations.
As is the case in this video, sometimes, you just have to step up by yourself.
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