Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I want to give you some contrarian advice today which can save you. It saved me. It's allowed me to be really productive in terms of creative output.

It allows me to forge ahead. It allows me to forge a head, it allows me to do things messy, to make mistakes, and still

get results that I want. And it is this, my friend. It's probably against what every other friend, mentor, teacher, coach, fill in the

blank has taught you. And it's this, under-think it. it.

Oh my gosh, does that make your palm sweat?

Especially if you're a perfectionist?

Underthink it.

Underthink it, underthink it, underthink it, underthink it.

You know... Underthink it, underthink it, underthink it.

You know, I had a couple of different experiences in the last, maybe year or more,

and these were actually to do with public speaking. One speech that I did I was so prepared for.

I was rehearsed, I was like down to every single pause within an hour

keynote.

I knew my words, I knew my gestures, I knew it.

It was down.

It was, I wouldn't even say overthought, but it was wildly prepared way more than I'm used to and then I'd like to contrast that to another experience which is frankly a little bit more short notice I got the invitation to

speak on a topic and I didn't have a whole lot of time to prepare. So I did my very

best but together some slides got a bit of feedback from people who I trust, and just delivered.

Just went out there and was myself.

Which one, just off the top of your head now, do you think went better?

Now this isn't a universal rule. Everyone's a bit different in terms of how they like to prepare,

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