How easy to replace are you?

Dorin Stefan
Jul 10, 2017 · 3 min read

One of the problems most people have when it comes to their job or when it comes to their relationships is that they don’t really know how easy to replace they actually are. The world loves to tell us how special we are and that we’re “limited edition”, but that’s not always the truth.

Sometimes the “special” people are easy to replace. There are other people in this world that are way better than them, and can do way more things. Suddenly, the word “special” has no meaning when you see that others can do the things you do.

A thing I try to do whenever I get a new job or whenever I meet a new person, is to make myself hard to replace. If I work for a company, I do my best to work as much as possible, and to bring a lot of value to the company. If I do that, I become hard to replace, especially if I do it way more than other people. The company will see me more as an asset than as a liability.

If I meet a new person I do my best to become his or her best friend, and to make them feel comfortable around me. If I’m their friend it doesn’t mean there aren’t other people out there better than me. I’m not competing against them, but I don’t want my new friend to see me as someone that can easily be replaced by another person.

I’m not saying you should fake your behavior or that you should constantly try to be useful and to stress people with that. I’m saying that you should work a little to develop a set of skills and qualities that will make it harder for people to replace you.

Spend some time learning a new skill that will bring thousands of dollars to your company. Try to make someone’s life easier by creating an app inside your company that will help every employee do their job faster. That means you have something other people don’t have, and that makes you harder to replace.

If you want people to think twice before replacing you, learn how to be an awesome friend, or an awesome lover. Listen to the other person, share secrets, keep their secrets, don’t ignore them, don’t treat them bad, don’t give them reasons to replace you and make sure you act nice. You don’t need to fake anything, you just need to become better as a person.

This way you make sure you find ways to make yourself really hard to replace, and this will make other people appreciate you more and give you more attention.

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