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Evan LaPointe: belief

11 Aug 2024 Lenny's Podcast Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences)

“I think that's really, really important, not just what we're here to do, but how we can think about this best.”

— Evan LaPointe

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Evan LaPointe
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belief
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11 Aug 2024
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Amazing. That'd be sweet if you have that. We'll definitely link to that on the show notes. The advice here is make sure when you're starting a meeting, running a meeting, prime everyone around the problem we're trying to solve or we're trying to get out of this meeting, the context, versus just diving into decision making. Very notably, the principles that apply. I think that's really, really important, not just what we're here to do, but how we can think about this best. You can even have a debate about the principles, and it's way better to have a debate about the principles than it is to have a debate about the tactics that are rooted in the fact that you have super misaligned principles. If somebody is trying to make the decision with speed in mind and another person is trying to make the decision with accuracy in mind, it is completely inevitable that they're about to have a cat fight in the meeting. It's not resolvable until they come back and revisit the fact that deeper down, we are approaching this in a completely different mentality with completely different objectives. Awesome. If you end up having these PDFs of waste to prime successfully, that'd be great.…

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