John Amaechi: uncertainty

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…I think introverts, on average, are better speakers than extroverts. They get less nervous. Again, my mind immediately went, citation, please. I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m an introvert, so it appeals to me. But I definitely think that if you’re an introvert, speaking is so energy-expensive, that if you’re going to do it, speaking especially in front of an audience or in front of somebody consequential is so energy-expensive, if you’re going to do it, you tend to plan and think it through more carefully, which can mean that your words are more carefully chosen, more carefully tonally placed. Whereas if you’re an extrovert, you just like to talk, and so you might just say anything. I don’t know, I haven’t seen the evidence behind that, but it appeals to me. And in your new book, It’s Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders, if you were to distinguish what makes your approach to leadership different or special, what would you say?…

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