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Master Your Craft

Name: Master Your Craft
Uploaded: 2023-12-27T19:00:01+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Jim Johnson
Description: Jim Johnson (speaker) urges listeners to "become a master of your craft" by consuming as much knowledge as possible—reading widely, following respected…

27 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Jim Johnson (speaker) urges listeners to "become a master of your craft" by consuming as much knowledge as possible—reading widely, following respected people, and asking them why they act as they do. He emphasizes not just listening to words but closely observing body language (hand use, posture, smile, shoulder position) because adopting confident physical habits strongly affects success—particularly in sales and in teaching others. This chunk frames learning as both intellectual (reading/following) and embodied (modeling confident behaviors).

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So become a master of your craft. Start reading. Read everybody you can. Start following the people that you have some respect for. Ask others, now, why did you do it that way? Don't just listen to the words they say, but pay attention to their body language, the way they use their hands, the way they stand, the way they smile, the way they have their shoulders back and are confident versus the alternative, which is to just be you. Sometimes we need to understand that there are certain ways that we hold our bodies and hold our actions and do the things that we do that are gonna have a huge impact on your success of being a great salesperson or not. And it will have a bigger impact on those that are teaching you to be able to share that information in a way that you understand it. So that's thing one, get all the knowledge that you possibly can.