The most important skills in the workplace: 1. If others think you're aloof and not sociable, so what. 2. If colleagues don't invite you to dinners or leave you out of team-building groups, so what. 3. If your boss publicly dismisses your proposal in a meeting, so what. 4. If seasoned veterans push all the dirty and trivial tasks onto you, so what. 5. If clients speak impatiently or give you the cold shoulder, so what. 6. If no one responds to your messages in the company chat and it falls silent, so what. 7. If you write your year-end summary carefully but no one pays attention, so what. 8. As long as the numbers in your paycheck are increasing, your skills are improving, and your chips are growing, everything else is just background noise. 9. Going to work is to accumulate capital and skills, not to compete for favor. 10. Others' opinions are variables; your growth is the quantifiable constant. 11. Don't waste your energy deciphering background noise; focus on honing your own.