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Reframing Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome is a signpost indicating the presence of self awareness. Knowing the extent of one’s limitations is an indication that you’re near the pointy, knowledgable end of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

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The Pricing Pickle

Price is one of the most effective levers we have to pull to affect how people think about us and our offerings…

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Technocrastination

The better strategy is often the really, really obvious one that you can do right now with absolutely no preparation or investment whatsoever.

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The Four Horsemen of the Productivity Apocalypse

If you’re going to succeed as a solo pro, you’re gonna need to get shit done. As the primary (or only) human resource in your business, if you’re wasting your time, you’re not going to succeed. Problem is, you’re on your own, and you likely have blind spots.

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The real cost

When you're thinking about selling something, think about the real cost. Often, it's far larger than the pricetag you've attached to your product/service.

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Is practice a waste of time?

It's true that practice is key to high performance. The problem isn't the act of practicing your speech. The problem is we tend to practice the wrong aspect of the speech.

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Specificity creates engagement

If you’re going to make money (easily) as a professional, you need to be memorable. To be memorable, you need to be interesting. To be interesting, you need to tell stories with characters, emotions, and specificity.

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Ditch the script

Scripts are absolutely terrible because they (falsely) convince our brain there is a correct group of things that have to be said in this presentation, and that there's a correct order that they need to be said.

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Thinking about thinking

All this thinking—if we let it run rampant—almost inevitably leads to all those deep-seated subconscious beliefs that we're unworthy, unloveable, and doomed to failure.

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