Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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24 published records
01 / evaluation
“We are often our biggest impediments to good communication because of the anxiety we bring to the party.”
02 / recommendation
“I often recommend speakers see the room even if they're not physically present, but get a picture online or some way envision yourself in the room, envision yourself in the room with the people you'll be speaking to.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don't know about you and I don't know anybody who could imagine seeing a bunch of people in their underwear and feel more comfortable with that.”
04 / belief
“I'm just like, that's too much work. So I think that's why it's important to take something where you have to do it because it's too easy just like, yeah, yeah.”
05 / belief
“I think to your point, it's like you can read about this and listen to podcasts all you want, but you're not going to actually get that much better.”
06 / belief
“Matt, I think we've packed this episode with so many tactical golden nuggets to help people become better communicators, especially on the spot.”
07 / belief
“The one you shared about, "I've got this," reminds me, my wife took a course with the Artist's Way writer, Julia Cameron I think is her name.”
08 / belief
“There's another one that I think you shared which is, "It's not about me, it's about my content.”
09 / belief
“I believe in minimally viable communication, trademark pending, where it's the same principles.”
10 / belief
“Now, certainly I can vary the tone and the directness of some of those responses so it sounds very differently, but thinking through it in my mind, I have to level set what we're talking about.”
11 / belief
“" People learn something and then from that, their editing ends up leading to something great in my experience.”
12 / belief
“I've done a number of them and I've coached many people and I think that there's a lot of value that they can provide people.”
13 / belief
“You have another technique I think that's different, maybe it's exactly the same, which is to ask a question of somebody else as you're talking, which is I think deflects attention from you.”
14 / observation
“I actually put it on a piece of paper, but the point is that we're not wired that way.”
15 / preference
“One that I personally think is a lot of fun is getting present oriented because when I'm in the present, by definition I'm not worried about the future.”
16 / evaluation
“You have a whole book about how to get better speaking on the spot. And I think why this is important is again, what I said at the beginning that I think most of our "public speaking" is not planned public speaking.”
17 / evaluation
“Why is it important to me and what can I do with that information?" And if you do that, not only do you get better and more comfortable deploying that structure, but you also remember the material better because there's a whole bunch of research that says when we interrogate the material that we listen to or read, we digest it and remember it more.”
18 / evaluation
“What helps them do well is all the preparation and practice that they've done. So there are lots of analogs to this, but when we think about it in of communication, it seems foreign, but when you think about it in athletics or jazz music, it's like of course you would prepare and practice.”
19 / commitment
“Many of us don't. And when we apologize, we need to make sure that we apologize for the transgression and not for how we made people feel.”
20 / prediction
“" Without that pressure, you end up saying something better and more interesting and more insightful because you're less nervous about it.”
21 / prediction
“Where I think I can add a little value to what Kim talks about, and she does talk about structure, but I think having the structure to package up the information to make it easier to digest by your audience, the person or people you're talking to, but also to formulate your thoughts can help.”
22 / recommendation
“One rule is the one that you shared that in small talk there should be a balance of disclosure or depth of disclosure over time. So if you're telling me about the first time your first pet died, and I'm telling you my favorite color is blue, there's a discrepancy in disclosure there.”
23 / evaluation
“I think that's really important because you want to help your body not connect to the stress that you're feeling like you're going to experience.”
24 / recommendation
“They do some teaching, but it's really to give you the reps. So I highly recommend Toastmasters. Improvisation is another way to get comfortable with these skills.”