How To Work Better, Tate style

3/29/2008 in Life by Alex Graveley | 5 comments

Today I was sneaking around behind the scenes at the Tate Modern London. I saw the following etched on a wall for the employees beginning their day.

How To Work Better

  1. Do one thing at a time
  2. Know the problem
  3. Learn to listen
  4. Learn to ask questions
  5. Distinguish sense from nonsense
  6. Accept change as inevitable
  7. Admit mistakes
  8. Say it simple
  9. Be calm
  10. Smile

It was spray painted on, which I guess is the modern art equivalent of a granite engraving.

5 comments

  1. knipknap’s avatar

    knipknap on 3/29/2008 at 2:28 pm

    “Accept change as inevitable”

    And I thought one ought to seek change rather than merely accepting it coming. But I’m just weird.

  2. orph’s avatar

    orph on 3/29/2008 at 3:02 pm

    @knipknap: Seeking and accepting are just phases of any life phenomena. For me, seeking precedes accomplishment, which is followed by acceptance, which fades to ignorance, whereupon a sense of lacking appears, then it loops again from the beginning.

  3. Max B’s avatar

    Max B on 3/29/2008 at 5:45 pm

    I’m pretty sure that i saw this last year at Palais de Tokyo in Paris….

  4. chris’s avatar

    chris on 3/29/2008 at 6:27 pm

    “It was spray painted on, which I guess is the modern art equivalent of a granite engraving.”
    This is an interesting interpretation for street art!

  5. Nat Friedman’s avatar

    Nat Friedman on 3/30/2008 at 2:41 pm

    I love this list!

    I would only add “when you don’t know, say so.”

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