Deb Liu: belief

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…Awesome. We'll revisit it when it launches. Is there a tactical tip you can share from the book for folks listening to this right now to give them a little peek at the kind of things they'll find in there? I touched on this a little bit earlier, is the unintentional ridiculous strategies. My friend Carol Isozaki teaches this. You don't go into a meeting thinking I'm just going to sit in the back and not participate. I'm just going to join the Zoom and not comment at all. I'm going to pretend I'm not even here. Nobody goes into a meeting doing that, but how many times do you leave a meeting having done just that? And so instead, really choosing intentionally, for everything you do, what is the output you want. In this meeting, I want to achieve X. Sending five seconds before we walk into a meeting and saying, "This is what I want to achieve and here's how I'm going to do it." And just thinking about that, that's just something that's so important and I think that we don't do that enough. And so instead, when you show up, really show up, or don't go, don't be a free rider. And I think that's something which how many Zoom meetings do you drift off in? You're there but you're not there. How many times do you go to a meeting but you're mentally checked out. Instead, when you go be 110% of yourself really show up and be there. I think that's one of the things that I see, which is if you are going to do anything, make sure that it's worth your time. And if you don't, it's totally okay to say no. I like the option of not going. There's so many meetings people have and it's like important to just recognize you don't have to go to every meeting, it's fine. You got other work to do.…

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