Stop Sidestepping the Truth: The Power of Hard Conversations

0:00Hi, it's Robin Sharma and welcome to Daily Mastery. This is my short form podcast where I'll walk you through the insights, methodologies, and tactics that I've shared with many of the world's most successful people as their mentor, including celebrity billionaires, NBA superstars, world-class artists, and global humanitarians. I hope you find great value in today's episode. Why Hard Talks Build Power? The conversation you are most resisting is the conversation you most need to have. What do I mean by that? Well, all too often, we get hurt by someone or we get upset by someone. It could be a work call. You could be at home in our family life. And we are almost taught by society not to speak out. We are afraid of being laughed at.

1:04People think we're weird. We could fail. And a lot of us, we think, well, we could lose the relationship and end up alone. It's fear. And so what it is, it's almost like non-communication born a fear. But great leaders, the best of the best, the most effective human beings on the planet all have one thing in common. And they speak up and they share their truth. And the more you practice, again, quality of your performance is all about the quality of your practice. And the more you actually practice speaking up when you know you want to speak up, the more you will actually step into your next level of power. And the more you actually betray yourself by not speaking up when maybe someone in a restaurant is serving you and they're not being polite or maybe a client is being disrespectful or maybe someone on the street is doing something that is dishonoring your humanity. Every single time you swallow what you most need to say,

2:12you actually lose power. You actually become more and more impotent as a leader, as a producer and as a human being. I mean, because you know this, we give away our power to the things that we avoid. The hard talks when you actually speak up are when you grow in power. And you actually not only grow in power, you build intimacy in the in the relationship. We just think about it. When you actually speak up with someone and you tell them how you're feeling and you tell them what's most important to you. Well, if it's the right relationship, one that's meant to be in your life, whether it's professional or personal, that is really a gateway into the other person having the permission to open up as well. And then you have two mature people talking about what's really most important versus side stepping the truth. Hi, it's Robin Sharma. I hope you've received a strong value from today's episode. I encourage you

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