ITL176: Owning the Spotlight: How to Handle a Leadership Role Where People Look Up to You
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how to handle the pressure of people watching and looking up to you.
People watching you and looking up to you are two different things.
- When it comes to people looking up to me, I don’t think about that at all.
- While I know it’s probably true, everybody has people who are looking up to them.
- I think the people that become hyperaware that people are looking up to them somehow become people we don’t want to look up to.
I talk to a lot of leaders about the fact that people are watching.
- This can affect your income if you do not remain aware that people are watching.
- I knew that I was getting a handle on that in my own life when people would comment on my personality.
- I always want to be happy, fun, and approachable. If I don’t watch myself, I can get very direct and intense.
- People tend to take a glimpse as the whole deal.
What do I do to keep my batteries charged?
- I read.
- I make sure that I have time around people that I am totally relaxed with, who will joke around with me.
- I have to have time by myself.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.9 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and with me once again, |
| 0:19.5 | Andy Andrews. Andy, how are you today? |
| 0:21.6 | Good, David. |
| 0:22.4 | How are you doing? |
| 0:23.2 | I am fantastic. |
| 0:24.6 | We are hanging out early here in the year, and things are just going so quickly. |
| 0:30.9 | I know you've been all over the place. |
| 0:33.4 | We've talked about that over the last couple of weeks, but one cool thing for anybody that hasn't heard, we did a podcast a couple of weeks ago with Jerry Jenkins. |
| 0:43.3 | And the response we've gotten to that has just been amazing to hear two amazing storytellers, amazing writers, get together and just talk about their journey. |
| 0:53.6 | People are just really loving |
| 0:55.5 | that episode. So if you haven't heard that, go back, check that one out. And I think you'll |
| 1:01.8 | really appreciate hearing Andy and Jerry talk. But Andy, you've enjoyed getting to know Jerry, |
| 1:06.6 | haven't you? Man, I had such a great time talking with him that we've actually talked now, |
| 1:13.0 | you know, off the air, so to speak, and I have emailed back and forth a couple of times. |
| 1:19.6 | And I really, I really like Jerry. I think he is an awesome guy. And I have, I really enjoyed going on his, his website and reading some of his blogs. |
| 1:30.9 | And I'll tell you one that I really, really enjoyed reading. |
| 1:34.7 | And it just caught my mind. |
| 1:36.5 | I mean, you know, because here's Jerry Jenkins who wrote all the left behind stuff. |
| 1:40.4 | And, you know, here's his blog. |
| 1:43.0 | And it says, the day I received a call from Stephen King or something like that. |
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