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Competing Too Much, Hijacking Conversations, Living on Autopilot, Walking 300k Steps, & More - with Cole Sager

Chasing Excellence

CHAPTER

How to Stop Talking Too Much

There is a thing called talk alcoholism, much like alcoholism. And if you are the one doing the talking, it feeds, it's like you feed to ego. So I tried myself to become comfortable with uncomfortable silences before picking up the phone or getting on a zoom call. We stopped asking how are you feeling today because everyone say pretty good. Instead we asked them about their energy level at where's your excitement of train where's your soreness and tell me why all those things. Even my uncle caught a 300 pounder fish even though he wasn't going to say it out loud!

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