A short spoken excerpt advising listeners to replace attempts to appear clever with genuine curiosity. The speaker urges asking follow-up questions, giving people space to explain, and resisting the impulse to immediately offer solutions or 'fix' others' problems.
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment. Somebody tells you, yeah, I've got that problem. Really? How are you addressing it? Right, we've got something for that. Oh, you do? What are you using to solve it? Just. Just have some curiosity. It just, you know, give the person a chance to explain further. What's going. Tell me more. Tell me more about that. Just have that curiosity. Don't try to be clever. Don't try to have the answer again. Don't be the knight in shining arm and be like, I can slay that dragon for you. Wham. You know, it's like, hold up. You know, just hold up a second. Let me talk about this a little bit further. So trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
#shorts THE POWER OF RECOGNITION: How Do You Empower People with Zoe Hartsfield
