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With your host, Pete Lekitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 188 with Justin Locke.

Justin takes an irreverent kind of fun approach when he talks about being stupid and how that's actually to your advantage in surprising ways.

So you'll learn one, why you shouldn't be scared of looking stupid, two, how to use the

irregardless effect to your advantage and 3. Stupid approaches to finding

brilliant solutions. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the

links to items that we reference here.

You'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash F-188.

And while you're at awesome at your job dot com, I encourage you to check out some of our useful resources. One I will highlight right now is the 10 days to

winning at work email course. This is a selection of bite size actionable tidbits from my enhanced thinking

and collaboration training programs. So you can get all those in a

convenient email delivery format right to your inbox over the course of 10 work days and it has some of the best tips

that have been shown to slash about 1.4 hours of waste out of people's work weeks, but they did the full

training program.

So hopefully you'll get a healthy dose of that

with the miniaturized tidbits there.

So the 10 days of winning at work

over at awesome at your job.

com.

Now, here is Justin's story Justin Locke spent 18 seasons playing bass in the

Boston pops. He then shifted focus to being an author, played right,

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