A short YouTube clip by Alli Peck offering a quick confidence life-hack for elevator pitches: imagine you're giving your 10-year-old self a life update so you can speak with pride and less nervousness. The tip is delivered as a concise first-person instruction about changing tone and perspective to feel more confident when talking to strangers.
Here's a life hack for feeling confident when you're giving an elevator pitch, pretend like you're giving your 10 year old self a life update. Sometimes I feel so nervous and awkward telling a stranger what I'm up to. But if I pretend like I'm giving my 10 year old self a life update, then I get to brag about all the cool things we're going to do when we grow up. When I approach an elevator pitch this way, my tone completely changes. Telling me what you would want to tell a stranger if you had the confidence like that.
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