Michael Brody-Waite - Why In a Pandemic - Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do

Many of us think that we have to sacrifice in our personal lives to be successful professionally or sacrifice professionally to be successful personally, but

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if you could do both? What if you could fully thrive in both? So I'm not the first. person who claims to lead yourself, regain energy and thrive fully, but this will be the first time that someone teaches how to use the principles that

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use to recover to do the things that every leader on this earth needs and wants, so the Question number one in In the last 30 days, has anyone said yes to something that they could say no to if you sat down and typed yes in the chat?

I will continue in the last 30 days. Have you found a weakness? If so, sit down and type yes in the chat in the last 30 days, have you avoided a difficult conversation? If you've said yes in the chat and go ahead and sit down, and if in the last 30 days you've stifled your unique perspective, go ahead and have a sit down and type yes, now I can't tell you how excited I am to see so many yeses because That is already awareness that you are already ahead of the game, I speak in front of crowds of 20 people, 200 and 2,000, and when I ask you four questions everyone has taken a seat so that you are not alone and that is because when we ask these things we are doing

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I call wearing a mask now just to clarify a few things because of the situation we are in I'm not talking about a physical mask I think wearing physical masks is valuable let's listen to the CDC and do everything we What we are supposed to do when it comes to wearing a physical mask, but centuries before the

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and centuries after, we are all tempted to wear a mask because Leaders in this world hide their true selves to succeed and set the rules of the game for everyone else.

They will not allow themselves to be seen as weak, for not having the answers, for being imperfect, because being afraid is not knowing what to do. Was there ever a time when it should be okay to say I don't know what to do? It is this and yet we see

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who do not do it because they teach us that we have to hide our true identity. To continue and to succeed, tonight I am destroying that idea and I am also going to teach you something: you can have the freedom you want, you can lead yourself, you can have the energy you want, you can thrive. in your life because if you can do this and recognize that every decision in your life comes down to a decision with or without a mask and that we make these decisions every day several times a day, you will know when someone is getting nervous. you know, when doing motivational talks they want to inspire everyone, they say just do this this once and your life will change, unfortunately that's not what I'm going to offer you tonight, I'm going to show you how a lot of small decisions work the difference between using a mask and not hiding your true self and it cannot be the difference between being able to lead yourself, regain energy and fully thrive so this is what I have learned and you have already shown that every individual team and organization in this world is seeing its potential stopped by these four masks number one mask saying yes when you could say no like a

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addict who almost killed me because I said yes to my illness but saying no transforms my life but no You don't have to be an addict to know how transformative it is.

That is to say no when you feel the pressure to say yes, it may be okay. I even wrote down some specific examples and I want you to write down chat examples that you've seen from people right now. whether it's yourself or others saying yes when you could say no emails projects that meet requests and you know what we're afraid of professionally, we're afraid that if we don't say yes to every project and every email and all requests that Somehow, we may not be able to keep our jobs, but we are also afraid that you know that the narrative prevails that you have to do something with this time, you need to rebuild your house or learn French or change the world with this time, but what?

If simply getting through this moment is enough, let's say we can say no to that pressure. Help the family go to a meeting. Paying for things for the family. We can say no to these things. What about social networks? We face pressure to say yes when we can say no. time but only at work and I have done the work to evaluate this it cost us 500 hours a year. What could you do with 12 more weeks at your job and much less in your personal life hiding a weakness that we believe we do share? a weakness we will not be seen as strong but when we share our weakness we become strong I was a

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addict man I wanted to hide that weakness and I know a thing or two about sharing a weakness because it changed me, it gave me access to the answers I needed to grow and becoming the person I needed to be in order to have the impact on the world I wanted, but the first step was how can I live with you?