From the course: Turning Awkwardness into Your Greatest Asset

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Practice with small-stakes situations

Practice with small-stakes situations

Well, could you share with us a cool story of someone who put in the reps? Where they start from, what did they do, and what cool results did they see on the other side? Absolutely. Yes, I do some executive coaching and I worked with a private client named Satya. I talk about her a bit in the book. She was painfully shy. Her parents, very gregarious, extroverted, her sister as well. And not only was she sort of naturally introverted and shy, but she had began a new job during the pandemic, at which point she really didn't have any ability to meet her peers in person. And she would see for a period of time her peers continue to get promoted ahead of her because they had had the advantage of things like networking and she didn't have natural places to do so, having worked from home by herself. So she realized, hey, if I want to get ahead, I got to do this thing that I don't particularly love, I find very awkward, which is networking. So she practiced in the small stakes moments. So…

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