How to Be Awesome at Your Job 1086: How to Unlock Personal Power and Deep Confidence with Chris Lipp
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Aug 21, 2025 
Chris Lipp, an author and professor at Tulane University, shares invaluable insights on confidence and personal power. He discusses how to eliminate self-consciousness and introduces a quick ritual to boost your power in just five minutes. Lipp emphasizes the importance of effective communication and articulating core values for career advancement. He also urges listeners to adopt a provider mentality at work and stay true to their personal values to enhance self-confidence and resilience against criticism.
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Power Beats Tactics In High Stakes
- Being grounded in personal power raises your odds of success dramatically across contexts like interviews and pitches.
- Personal power increases likelihood of positive outcomes by about 80% independent of other tactics.
Confidence From Inner Anchoring
- Confidence stems from being connected to your competence and values, not from a fake veneer.
- When you truly know your stuff you naturally project authority across many subtle channels.
Five-Minute Values Priming
- Twenty minutes before a high-stakes meeting, pick your top life value and write for 4–5 minutes why it matters to you.
- Anchoring in that value primes personal power and doubles your chances of showing up confidently.
