Confidence is the natural result of being plugged into ourselves and taking responsibility, feeling a sense of control for our environment.

Self-consciousness is the opposite of being anchored in our values because we're more

worried about what other people think than what we think.

That's Chris Lipp. He's a renowned communications professor and persuasion expert whose work has appeared in media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company. His new book, The Science of Personal Power, How to Build Confidence, Create Success, and Obtain Freedom, reveals how to bridge the science of inner well-being with the science of outer achievement by developing personal power. So you'll learn one, how to end self-consciousness,

two, a five-minute ritual to prime your power, and three, two behaviors that naturally earn your

respect. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, I recommend

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At Your Job. And now, here's Chris. Chris, welcome. Great to be here. Thank you. Well, I'm so

excited to hear about the science of personal power, how to build confidence, create success, and obtain freedom.

Listeners are often asking for pro tips and tricks to greater confidence. Could you share with us any particularly surprising and fascinating discoveries you've made as you study this stuff over the years?

Without even talking about personal power, you know, if you have a higher personal power,

you prime yourself, for example, to go into an interview with higher personal power versus

lower, you're 81% more likely to get the job, doing nothing else. So, you know, a lot of times

today, yeah, career, right? There's so much advice on how to communicate, how to do this,

a lot of tactical advice. But if you're simply grounded in your power when you walk into a meeting, when you walk in an interview, when you walk into a pitch, you're 80% more likely to succeed. I think that's fascinating. Well, it is fascinating on many levels. One, I mean, we love it when a quick and easy thing you can do is transformative.

So we're going to dig into all kinds of detail on how that is executed. But also, it just kind of

makes you think, well, huh, shouldn't these decision makers as they're doing their hiring or their

business investing, ideally optimally, they'll be making decisions based upon the needs on the ground of what's

going on and whether or not your pitch or your expertise and experience is exactly what is

needed in that moment. But apparently there's enough given the system that showing up great

gives you an 81% boost. Yeah, well, I think there's a misunderstanding in what you just said there because why personal power is important. You know, we do live in this environment where we value people who have great skills. And yet we see a lot of times there are people who are brilliant and yet they're not getting, they're not getting advanced in their career, right? Sometimes they're even being let go and you're like, how, this this, this happened to me. I was talking to a fellow at Lockheed Marana and he was saying, you know, there's one brilliant guy. Like everybody couldn't even follow his work. He was so brilliant. But eventually he was the one who got let go and other people were getting raised up. And his lesson there, because now he's a fellow, right, he's basically the top of a sole contributor you can be, you know, manager, sole contributor. But he said,

you know, And his lesson there, because now he's a fellow, right, he's basically the top of a sole contributor

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