Just as a red flag at the beach is a warning signal to stay out of the water due to dangerous conditions, the red flag at the interview offers a similar alarm bell. Don’t dip a toe in that pond!
Why do we judge on outward appearances alone? Why do we turn in with envy or away with revulsion when we see something that doesn’t meet our own prescribed standards?
Stop waiting for things to happen. Make them happen through a series of strategic steps with calculated results, restarts and retries, mistakes and missteps, do-overs and try-agains, hard work and lessons learned…