You Freeze in Meetings (even When You Know You Stuff)
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The video discusses how people freeze in meetings even when they know their stuff, and provides a framework to overcome this by recognizing the 'Comparison Trap'. The discussion highlights the idea that people compare their internal struggles to others' polished performances.
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That's the Comparison Trap—and here's the framework to interrupt it.
You're not comparing apples to apples. You're comparing your internal chaos to everyone else's polished performance. You see their production mode while running in debug mode. Every error visible to you, invisible to them.