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Sometimes, trying too hard to be right all the time can actually backfire.

As my mother-the-therapist always told me, the more we focus on always being right, the more we risk damaging our relationships and stifling the creativity and openness of the people around us. Actually, she said that in much more eloquent terms but that’s neither here nor there.

If you think you know everything I’m going to say in this episode, maybe you should listen to it. ‘Cause you don’t.

 

Jeff’s Bio

Bios are boring. But you know what’s fun? Poems.
And since poems are so much fun,
I turned my bio into one.

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Show Notes

[00:00] Introduction

[00:37] The Jeopardy lesson

[02:11] The always right dilemma

[02:47] The entrepreneur’s dilemma

[04:06] When being right is wrong

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