Good morning, my friends.

Welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast.

Justin Suwa here, episode 1,7004.

Today we're talking about leadership.

Being a leader is a great opportunity to help others become the best versions of themselves.

However, if you're not careful, there are some pitfalls that

can tangle you up and here are a few of them. Number one is over confidence. Expertise can create

blind spots. The more you know, the easier it is to believe you know more than you actually do. We all have boundaries.

You have boundaries. I have boundaries to our circle of competence. So you want to hold yourself

accountable by questioning your assumptions. You want to cultivate intellectual humility.

You need to realize you don't know everything and share with

others the things that you don't know. Tell them you don't know. Tie a probability to your

predictions to keep yourself honest. And as you do that, you'll be able to realize and see

when things don't turn out as anticipated. And the second trap is that people don't

give you feedback. The more you're perceived to be an expert, the less people are going to question you.

The higher you are on the hierarchical chain, the more hesitant people are to give you critical

feedback, even if you ask for it.

So practice sharing your failures with others.

Show others where your judgments are flawed, express where you think you need to improve,

and ask those you lead for suggestions on how to get better.

Philip Tetlock economist professor has one of my favorite quotes. He says,

beliefs are hypotheses to be examined, not treasures to be guarded. So as you go out and lead,

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