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Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

#3366: How To Make Strong First Impressions

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

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4.9600 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today I’m talking about how to make strong first impressions. You’ve heard the saying—“you never get a second chance to make a first impression”—and it’s true. Most people will lock in that first image of you, and no matter what happens after, that’s how they’ll keep seeing you. Even if the first thing they saw was fake, they’ll still treat it like it’s real. So in this episode, I’m breaking down how to take control of that moment and make sure the first impression you give is the one you actually want people to remember. Show Notes:  [02:25]#1 How you walk in is also how you walk through and is also how you will walk out.  [08:46]#2 Ask yourself better questions. [15:32]#3 Always be ON.  [22:13]Recap Next Steps: 🎓 Work On Your Game University Get structured, get paid → WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com 📧 Dre’s Daily Emails (Free) Clarity. Strategy. Execution. → WorkOnMyGame.com 🤖 Chat with DreGPT AI that thinks like Dre → DreAllDay.com/AI 🎧 Free Audiobooks The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com/audible Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible 📚 Claim Your Free Books The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com Sales Discipline System → SalesDisciplineBook.com Overseas Basketball Blueprint → BallOverseas.com How To Play As Well As You Practice → HoopHandbook.com/Free 💵 Support the Show CashApp → Cash.app/$DreBaldwin 📱 Connect with Dre Instagram → Instagram.com/DreBaldwin TikTok → TikTok.com/@WorkOnYourGame YouTube → YouTube.com/DreAllDay Twitter / X → X.com/DreAllDay Facebook → Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity 🎙 All Episodes + Archive → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:00.0

So someone's not met me yet and they're asking somebody who has met me about me, I want to think to myself what I want that person to say and is my impression, the way I'm showing up, reflective, what I want that person to say.

0:10.9

You need to ask yourself this question.

0:14.2

Work on your game. Work on your game. Work on your game.

0:20.2

This is Drey Baldwin. And work on your game is Work on your game. This is Drey Baldwin.

0:21.7

And work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance.

0:26.1

Today's topic is how to make strong first impressions.

0:31.5

Now, as the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

0:36.6

Everybody's heard that saying before.

0:38.5

Also, you may have heard that a first impression is often a lasting impression, meaning the way that

0:43.8

people first get introduced to you or the first thing that they notice and or feel about you is

0:49.3

pretty much going to be the way they see you forever, no matter what else gets presented to,

0:57.9

from, by, or about you. And in my experience in life that first impression that people get of you is often just that it is the final way

1:02.2

that they always see you no matter what else happens unless there is a really strong emotionally

1:08.0

altering situation that changes the way they see you. Generally, it doesn't

1:11.5

change. Generally, they hold the same view of you for the most part. And in my experience,

1:15.8

it's hardly anything you can do to change that first impression once somebody has set it in their

1:19.2

mind. Because most people are not objective, neurological enough to understand that everyone has a

1:25.1

representative in certain ways and in certain times and in certain places that

1:28.9

they put themselves out there. And just because you saw them one way in a certain setting does not

1:32.9

mean that's who they actually are. That may be very little of who they are. And it doesn't even

1:37.2

mean that's the real version of them on any level, even though it was the first thing that you saw

1:41.7

about them. And this is especially true if you're getting an impression of a person who knows that they are being watched by a lot of people, i.e., they know they're on camera, or they know they're a center of attention, or they know they are somehow, some way, a spectacle in a certain environment.

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