Think Fast, Talk Smart
🏷️ Tào lao
Overcome anxiety
- Take a deep bellly breath
- Exhale twice as long as inhale
- Drink warm water
- Hold something cold in the palm
- Greet anxiety
- Be in the present moment
- Tongue twister
Maximize mediocrity
- Less observation and evaluation
- It’s fine to get wrong
- Dare to be dull
Mind your mindset
- See things as an opportunity
- Not yet… | Yes, and… | Next play… | Missed takes…
- Reframe as a conversation, not performance
- Use conversational language
Listen deeply
- Slow down, listen, listen, and response
- Paraphrase
- Ask a question
Structure
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Response with a structure
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Useful structures
- Problem/opportunity -> solution -> benefit
- What? -> So what? -> Now what?
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Structure sets you free
Focus
- Tell the time, don’t build clock
- Tell conisely the relevant things
- Have a goal: Know, Feel, Do
Ground rules
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Tell a story
- What if you could,…
- So that,…
- For example,…
- And that’s not all…