We enter into conversations not fully present creates a self fulfilling prophecy that the meeting, the call, the whatever that we're entering into is not going to be beneficial because we've already decided it beforehand. So how do we make sure that we enter into conversations with the proper expectations? Aloste. Part of it is to suspend expectations, ok. And this is somte that i took from interview and interrogation as well early on in my career. Ad think about the person i would have to interview, and maybe think, ah, this'll be easy, no problem. I got this. But then a minute and a half later, i feel like i'm locked in a cage with somebody