Turn a Negative Trait into Your Greatest Strength | Jenny Wood

When was the last time that you told someone that it'd be good for them if they were weird, selfish, or manipulative? Um I never. Um those are not exactly traits that I'm trying to cultivate mys in myself or promote in others, Tim. Uh.

Yeah, I understand. I understand. But Maybe. Just maybe it's the way that we're looking at these terms. Most people need the push, the wild courage to dial these traits up. Most people do not need to dial them back. Fear, fear, fear, fear of the unknown, fear of failure.

Fear of uncertainty and the desire to people please or to do things like everybody else. Yeah. Which worked great on the Savannah. Worked great on the Savannah. But in this giant world with eight billion people and at competitive organizations where lots of top performers are to your left and to your right. The way to quote unquote survive that is not on the savannah is to stick out, to be a little bit weird, to be a little bit shameless, and to kick your imposter syndrome to the curve. So Kurt, today's guest might change your mind about the virtues of being weird, selfish, shameless, obsessed, nosy, manipulative, brutal, reckless, and bossy.

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