TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

26 Jan 2015 · 2 min

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TJ Walker delivers a short live-stream monologue warning about the dangers of over-communicating during media appearances. He recounts an incident where the White House chief of staff accidentally disclosed the first name of an American hostage while appearing on multiple Sunday talk shows, and advises using written notes to avoid slips when discussing highly sensitive material.

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The perils of talking too much. Well, this was truly an oops moment. White House chief of staff over the weekend was making a full Ginsburg. That's what's known as hitting all five Sunday morning political talk shows the same day. Dennis McConaughey was on all the talk shows. And in one of the talk shows, he accidentally gave the first name of an American hostage held by isis. Now, this was not what anyone wanted to have happen. The military, the political intelligence community did not want this to happen. The hostages family didn't want this to happen. And it appears to have just been a slip of the tongue. So I can only attribute this. Obviously, there's nothing for the White House chief of staff to gain from this. I can only attribute this to just sort of having your head spin. Doing five separate talk shows in one day, talking about serious, serious matters. Now, I've certainly done a lot more than five talk shows in a day. In fact, I once did 112 talk show appearances in a day. But it wasn't anything politically sensitive like this. So rule of thumb, if you're going to be talking about really, really highly sensitive material and you got to make sure stuff doesn't come out, have it written down on notes and refresh your memory right before you go into the interview. Even if you're doing one after another after another, take nothing for granted because this was frankly, an embarrassment for the chief of staff and the White House. I'm T.J. walker.