Great business leaders know that confidence isn’t about being the loudest in the room..

27 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a Bill Gallagher YouTube talk ("Great business leaders know that confidence isn’t about being the loudest in the room..") using a sports anecdote. The speaker describes a player nicknamed “Easy E” who deliberately looks for one positive from every practice and maintains a short memory for mistakes, quickly moving past errors and keeping the team focused—presenting this as a model of quiet, resilient leadership and confidence.

Well, he did apply the idea of taking something good away from every practice, deliberately looking for something at the end of every practice, what went right here. He also got very good at having a short memory for things that went wrong. So he could throw two interceptions in the course of the game and then come right back into the game and say, okay, boys, here's the call. Let's rock to the point where his teammates refer to him as Easy E.