Welcome back, everybody. It's such a pleasure to be with you. Thank you, really. Thank you for listening.

This is part two of my conversation with Eduardo Brasino. Eduardo is, among other things,

the author of the performance paradox. It's all about turning the power of mindset into action.

If you've ever heard of or been impacted by the growth mindset from Carol Dweck,

then this book from Eduardo is about how you can take those ideas and really implement them,

execute on them. By the end of this episode, you'll be able to lead yourself and others to

constantly improve and outperform your targets. Let's get to it.

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there and more is on the way. Let's talk about this. Let's try to merge our minds here to say,

what are the learning tactics that you are advocating in the performance paradox? How can we apply

those two gracefully saying no, being selective, making better trade-offs? Let's see if we can do

that real time. First is the discipline pursuit of the intention to improve. It is being clear

about what I'm trying to improve. When I get a cue of a request, I need to respond differently.

That's a learning zone for me because the performance, the execution, would be to just say yes.

And so what I need to do is to pause, which is not easy for me. And then I need to do something.

Hold on. Let's stay on pause. Is there any tangible insight you have about that? We've all heard,

I think, the idea that you have to pause. How? Any specific tools that you have identified?

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