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How many of you have ever had this situation where you were in a Google Doc and you

were working on something and someone else was simultaneously working on that dock?

No, I'm serious.

Serious question.

Not many of you. You don't use Google.

I understand.

If you found yourself in a situation

where you were working on something

and someone else was working simultaneously on it,

it can be one of the most frustrating experiences

in regards to your own output that you will ever encounter.

I want you to imagine that you're typing up something

and then someone comes in there and just deletes a chunk of your work.

Or someone takes it in a direction

that you never anticipated. I actually use this example to start off this talk for a very

specific reason. A lot of times when I'm handed the title for a session at any conference, it's

what do you dream of being? What do you want to

become? How do you see this all playing out for yourself? It's always the same words of empowerment,

leadership, and they all kind of circle around one another. But what I want you to actually appreciate

as we talk about the subject of what you dream of being

is that there are two parallel tracks that are side by side.

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