Secret Agent (Evy Poumpouras): Never Be Yourself At Work! Authenticity Is Quietly Sabotaging You! - Evy Poumpouras

Don't bring your authentic self to work. I want your professional self. You can bring authentic self to Thanksgiving meal with your family if you'd like to. Your authentic self is about who? Me, me, me, me, me. Everything is what's happening to me. What's in it for me. Do you know that you impact other people, you affect other people's lives, you make the work environment easier? Or more taxing? So I've been around former SEALs, US Secret Service, presidents, and I learned a lot about communication, reading people, confidence, and I'll share these things. So first of all, Ebi Pomporas is the former U.S. Secret Service agent. From guarding presidents to reading liars, she now reveals the strategies she used to make anyone respect you, trust you, and give you what you

What I've been around very confident people and they had a really good circle around them inner circle because if you're exposing yourself to people in environments that are not good for you, that will actually impact your life negatively. You know, I always say be careful who you try to save, some people will drown you. And then the other thing I would see presidents do is they were very good at delegating, so they didn't need to know everything. Because confident people are okay with not knowing all the information. So your brain is like a bathtub. The bathtub can only hold so much water. If you keep putting water in the bathtub, it's gonna overflow. That's your cognitive load. My bathtub only holds the water it needs to hold in. And another thing that the Secret Service taught us is that it's really important to use your hands. Because when people don't see See hands, it's a sign of untrustworthiness. Like you can't trust them. So when you see hands, open hands, I'm no threat. And then there's communication skills, manipulation tactics, and a strategy to make good decisions. And I will go through them. But the two most important things are Just give me thirty seconds of your time.

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