How to be Unforgettable: Be more awkward

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re closing out our two part series on How to be Unforgettable. Often, we consider our awkward moments as unforgettable in an embarrassing way, but today’s guest challenges us to look at those social blunders as opportunities for growth. Henna Pryor is the author of "Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become The Bravest You". She and Jessi take a silver lining approach to their cringiest moments and take a look into why they mean so much. Follow Henna Pryor on LinkedIn and check out her book. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:06.0	Uh, how do you think of yourself as an awkward person?
0:08.0	I now embrace it as a quality yes, so the answer is yes. I think of it as a quality yes so the answer is yes I think of myself as a wonderfully
0:15.9	awkward confident person from the news team at LinkedIn I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday.
0:23.0	Today we bring you the second and final episode in our short series that I've come to call
0:36.0	how to be unforgettable.
0:38.8	Last week we explored how to be less silent. That's how I think of the conversation I had with Elaine Lynn Herring. This week we ask you to consider
0:49.5	being more awkward. Because if you're going to be brave enough and loud enough to make an impression,
0:56.0	things are going to get awkward.
0:58.0	They just are.
0:59.0	So many awkward things happen at work.
1:02.0	Have you ever hit reply all on an email? Many awkward things happen at work.
1:02.6	Have you ever hit reply all on an email that should never have gone out?
1:07.0	Called a colleague by the wrong name, spoken up in a meeting only to say something that just
1:12.0	sounds dumb when you think about it.
1:15.0	Once, I spend an entire client meeting
1:18.0	with an advertiser at the magazine I used to work for,
1:21.0	calling her, Aaron. So loudly, calling her Aaron.
1:23.1	So loudly, Aaron, Aaron.
1:25.6	Afterward, she pulled me over and said,
1:28.2	my name is Ellen.
1:30.4	Can any of us really avoid these situations?
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