10K Speeches - 08/2019 Flashcards
Your goal is to keep down the pressure and noise in your head. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Easy / Hard - Easy to do, but hard to remember to do. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Friendtor - A friend who is also a mentor. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The mind can’t tell the difference between imagination and memory. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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If you want to make more, spend more. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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We all choose our lives, just the way they are. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I choose everything in my reality, and because of that, I’m totally free. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Fear of public speaking is a selfish addiction. It’s not about you. It’s about them. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When you are speaking, your life should go on pause. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When I take the stage, I’m an example of what it means to be fully expressed. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The hardest part of my job is holding people to their greatness. They will kick and scream the whole way. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You can’t change what happened to you, but you can change how you interpret it. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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To be a world class speaker, you have to be a world class humaan. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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If you don’t work on your own shit, you will pass it on to others…and sometimes without even knowing it. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The best thing I can do as a speaker is work on myself. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Emotion is the currency of humanity. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I don’t change people. They have to change themselves. All I can do is nudge them to change. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You don’t get to be the only influence on your kids, but you better be the best one. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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What people are craving more than advice is a great example to follow. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You business is like a child. What stage is it in right now? - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Winners find ways. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Speaking is not the business, getting the gig is. - David Avrin (@DavidAvrin) #10KSpeeches
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Half of my clients didn’t know me prior to us reaching out. - David Avrin (@DavidAvrin) #10KSpeeches
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It’s not about what you say, it’s about what they hear. - David Avrin (@DavidAvrin) #10KSpeeches
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Speaking Bureaus almost will never take a chance on new speakers. - David Avrin (@DavidAvrin) #10KSpeeches
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We don’t do cold calls, but we do tons of cold emails. “…Watch this video and you’ll know in 3 mins if he’s your guy.” - David Avrin (@DavidAvrin) #10KSpeeches
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What doesn’t kill you, raises your speaker fee. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Great storytellers build a bridge from their story that the audience can relate to. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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If you play it save as a speaker, you will be seen as irrelevant. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You will never surpass your inner image. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You have to teach your customers how/why to buy from you. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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With emails I ask myself “how do I want them to feel when they read this?”- Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Your tears are your strength. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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With your audience. Build tension and then release the tension. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When you don’t deal with an emotion, you are building a time bomb inside you. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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“Check mark method” of storytelling. start medium, go low, come back to medium, end high. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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If you choose to share a private story publically, be prepared for blowback. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Stories cut through the noise. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Vulnerability isn’t a tactic, it’s a way of being. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The more persona <> The more universal. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Speaking is a cool profession because we get to have the attention of others. Do you know how hard it is to get someone’s attention for as long as we get to? - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Purpose of a story is to: 1) Activate an emotion 2) Create an emotional connection 3) Establish credibility without bragging - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Sean’s Blocks for Speaking (Stories, Activities, Lessons) - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When you acknowledge the audience, the audience acknowledges you. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The audience wants to hear their own voice more than yours, so let them hear it. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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DYK The sound of your own voice soothes you? - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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A great story has three parts (Orphan - Wandering - Warrior) - Adam Lyons #10KSpeeches
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When it comes to marketing, just do what you will actually do. Don’t get overwhelmed with trying to do everything. - Peter Bielagus (@bielagus) #10KSpeeches
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It’s not about revenue. It’s about profit and your time. - Peter Bielagus (@bielagus) #10KSpeeches
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You don’t get to decide how powerful your speech is, your audience does. - Peter Bielagus (@bielagus) #10KSpeeches
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It’s powerful to be in a niche, it’s also scary to do so. - Peter Bielagus (@bielagus) #10KSpeeches
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Three ways to be funny: 1) Exaggerate the truth 2) Exaggerate the lie 3) Do an impersonation - Peter Bielagus (@bielagus) #10KSpeeches
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You can’t show someone something they don’t want to see yet or not ready to see. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I’ve been a speaker for 15 years and human for 39 years. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Thee more they come at you, the more you have to know that they are scared and they love you. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I just don’t take shit personally. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Humans are great at Rational Lies (rationalize) - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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What the audience is thinking is none of your business. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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When you are carrying our weight, you are also carrying around wait. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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Your mind can be an asset or an asshole. The choice is yours. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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Never instruct unless you have first confessed. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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Have a more casual relationship with your mind/thoughts. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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It doesn’t have to revolutionary, it just have to be evolutionary. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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Make every decision the right decision. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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Self help becomes Shelf Help. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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If I believed about the world exactly what they believe about the world, I’d do the exact same thing. - @TheJasonGoldberg #10KSpeeches
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Your greatest message won’t come from you, but through you. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You are greater than you think because you are greater than you can think. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The whisper of the heart. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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In a relationship you don’t complete someone, you reveal them. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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No emotion is bad to me…even rage. Which is why you can feel safe around me and my emotions. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I only let people into my inner circle who are energetically responsible. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Not all money is equal. Bad money drains. Good money recharges. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Standing ovations aren’t about you, it’s about what going on with them. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Fear shouts at you, but passion from your heart whispers. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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That which is hysterical is historical. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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There is no relationship between being good and getting paid. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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E.L.F. = Easy, Lucrative, Fun. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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H.A.L.F. = Hard, Annoying, Lame, Frustrating. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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If people don’t pay, they don’t pay attention. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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People become speakers because they either have low self-esteem, or want the world to like them. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Never give up. But there is a difference between persistence and productive. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Best way to get out of a whole is to stop digging it. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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If you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Go deep with a few because the masses go shallow with many. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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We are sick from our sickness. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Wherever there is anxiety there is opportunity. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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The opposite of addiction is connection. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Get past your pain to be an amazing speaker. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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People don’t buy from you they understand what you do. They from you because they feel you understand them. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Who do you want to be a hero to? - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Biggest person to be a hero to is yourself. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Learn to love marketing. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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A compelling offer is 10x more powerful than a compelling argument. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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The only thing worse than singing the wrong note is to sign it louder. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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If a certain type of environment is working for you. Figure out how to keep putting yourself in that environment. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Airline motto “We aren’t happy until you aren’t happy.” - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Lighten up, you’ll live longer. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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In 10 years, most people are just going to be older versions of who they are now. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Three ways to learn: 1) Do it yourself 2) Learn from masters 3) Teach to others - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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Be nice to the people on the way up, because they will be the same people on the way down. - @JoePolish #10KSpeeches
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When you are in an environment, you become the environment. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I’m a Big Ass Semi. Get behind me and ride the drift. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The go it alone people usually… 1) Tap out 2) Take a looong time to do something 3) Come back a year later and sign up wishing they didn’t wait. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I know you want it and I know I can provide it. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Fear is the only thing that gets smaller the more you run towards it. - @PeterScottIV #10KSpeeches
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Be comfortable with the silence on stage. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Great speaker either tell a story or interact. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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As a speaker, you have to be ok creating tension and releasing it. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Disney makes millions from the story of the underdog overcoming odds to be successful. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Make sure you relate your story to the audience. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When you tell a story right, it’s no longer about you, it’s about them. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Comedy is about misdirection (just like magic). - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Create a keynote that ruins the conference. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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If you do a phenomenal job, the event planner looks like a hero. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Weave the conference theme into your keynote. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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The “how” shows up when you are all in. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When you are all in, the universe goes…“ohhhh” - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You will feel “the squirm” when you go all in and are nervous. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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You are not responsible for your clients/audiences breakthroughs. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I’m only responsible for influencing their emotions, not controlling them. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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I’m responsible for teaching you how to treat me. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Own your land. Own your airspace. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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It looks like Art, but it’s built by Science. - @PeterScottIV #10KSpeeches
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Let the audience know you are still a work in progress..but not too much. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Insecurities never go away, you just learn to manage them with good self care and they lay dormant. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Align with your life’s purpose. “Why were you were born?” - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Surround yourself with empowering people who hang out in empowering locations and do empowering things while thinking empowering thoughts. - @TomKrieglstein (#10KSpeeches)
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People say first hand experience is best. No it’s not, because if a mentor tells you a stove is hot, it’s way better to listen to the mentor then to touch the hot stove and learn 1st hand. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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When you align with your purpose, you get “god’s caffeine” flowing through your body. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Be willing to vibrate at a frequency of a mission. Humans are craving mission. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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My tears are real and I have them under control. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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Don’t quite…reorganize. - Sean Stephenson (@3FootGiant) #10KSpeeches
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