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🗓️ 4 March 2022
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0:00.0 | In terms of skills as well as an entrepreneur, I heard you talk about public speaking being |
0:05.6 | integral to public speaking at university. |
0:08.3 | I did a lot of public speaking at university in a lot of debating and the skill I think |
0:12.8 | that's important is the ability to be able to persuade people of your ideas, not necessarily |
0:17.0 | public speaking, but in every meeting that you go to, you need to be able to look people |
0:20.3 | in the eye and convince them that your idea is right and that could be in a sales role, |
0:25.5 | it could be sitting around a table with a bunch of developers and one of them saying, |
0:28.9 | I think this is the right way forward. |
0:30.1 | If you can't articulate yourself properly, then you're never going to be listened to. |
0:33.2 | And that's a skill that I think is being recognised in the skills. |
0:37.6 | I do a lot of education now, so I see now more and more they recognise that that's a skill |
0:42.4 | that is really important, that people should be able to look someone in the eye and be able |
0:46.4 | to explain yourself very coherently. |
0:48.7 | I tend to actually believe, I'd go one step further and think, I can't think of a more |
0:52.5 | important skill in life and business, then I refer to it as sales, |
0:57.6 | because we think of sales, we think of trying to get cash out of someone else's pocket |
1:00.9 | by giving them something, but I think of it as like me to girl in a nightclub, |
1:04.5 | trying to communicate your idea to your team, investors, employees, |
1:09.6 | everyone you encounter, I think, is to some degree you're trying to sell something, |
1:13.5 | and it's usually yourself. |
1:14.6 | Yeah. |
1:15.1 | But those that are, you think about how that compounds over 70 years of your life, |
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