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62: How To Stay Calm In High Pressure Meetings
People are always deciding how you handle pressure, and most of the time they never tell you what they decide.
They’re going off whatever they saw the last time things got tense. Somebody pushed back, or a project went sideways, and they read how you reacted to it.
That read follows you around. It turns up later when somebody is weighing whether you’re ready for more.
Most of us put our energy into the wrong half of this. We work on feeling calmer and more sure of ourselves. Then we wait until we feel that way before we speak up or make the hard call.
But nobody you work with has any access…
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