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Wee Bit Wiser by Jordan Harbinger Wise up If there’s one underappreciated superpower in this world, it’s listening. Like, really listening. Fully. Actively. Generously. I truly believe that listening well can change your relationships, your results, your overall experience of the world. But there’s a dark side to listening, too. The superpower of listening — when it’s taken too far — can become a fatal flaw. And that fatal flaw is the tendency to hide. To hide in the role of the person who’s...
Wee Bit Wiser by Jordan Harbinger Something wise They say that most people’s greatest fear is public speaking. Something about all those eyes on you. And sure, talking in front of people can be pretty intense. But there’s something far more terrifying for most people: conflict. Telling someone you’re not happy about something, expressing your anger, receiving theirs — that can be awful. Especially if you weren’t raised in an environment where healthy conflict was encouraged and taught. Which...
Wee Bit Wiser by Jordan Harbinger Something wise Earlier this year, a small-business owner wrote into Feedback Friday asking me to connect him with a guy I knew years ago who sold “money pills” — literally, supplements that change your “money genes” and make you richer. (‘Cuz those are definitely a thing, and they can definitely be altered by pills that go for $3,000 a pop. Insane.) It was a weird request, because the money-pills dealer in question — a scammy life coach named Carl — died a...