1. Right to stay positive (all the time)
It doesn’t matter if you dropped the ball during a funding pitch or your proposal got rejected. Your work will speak for itself. You need to remain positive in the face of a crisis.
2. Right to be delusional
You spend your working hours talking about how important work-life balance is, and then spend the entire weekend catching up on work. This is the level of delusion everyone should strive for.
3. Right to reject a meeting invite
You have the right to ignore statements such as “Let’s do a quick meeting” or “Let’s discuss this in the next meeting.”
4. Right to choose your jargon
You can choose which jargon you want for your area of work—be it ‘resilience’ or ‘catalyst for change.’ No matter how many times they have been used.
5. Right to learn nothing from a conference
Even if you tried your best to prepare for the long speeches and seminars during a conference, it’s okay if you came back with goodies and retained zero essential information. Exchanging visiting cards is more than enough.
6. Right to have negligible impact (on paper)
Your work is visible and has an impact on the ground, so you don’t have to put it in a presentation with colourful graphs—it’s okay to not show impact sometimes.
