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Lenny Rachitsky: belief

13 Oct 2024 Lenny's Podcast Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)

“The greatest puzzle that I think that I've had in my life, and I think just for most people, is trying to figure out what to do with their life.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
13 Oct 2024
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Ladies and gentlemen, let's see this. Here we go. The title is The Greatest Puzzle. The greatest puzzle that I think that I've had in my life, and I think just for most people, is trying to figure out what to do with their life. And I just had to spend so much time thinking... Actually, no, let me change. I'm changing direction. I actually have known from very early on what I wanted to do with my life. I've actually found it to be not much of a puzzle. I knew from pretty early that I wanted to be a software engineer. And interestingly, I became a software. And as I think about the puzzle that created around my life, I ended up... So my life actually started to look like a puzzle instead of what I'd always thought I'd be. So I ended up having a bunch of different careers. And I look back at my life and it started with one piece, and each piece led to all these other careers. Nailed it. It's funny. At the end you were like, you didn't even see there was a six that came up and then when you looked up, it had already gone away. That's a good warm-up.…

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