Directness and being your true self are extremely vital in making business decisions - whether you’re a leader in a small team within a larger organization, or the leader of the larger organization yourself. So many companies lose so much money because they just do not communicate directly! On this episode of Think Fast Talk Smart, learn how your interpersonal skills can help save your company millions, and take you to heights you’ve only ever imagined before. This episode’s guest, Graham Weaver, has previously been in situations where direct communication could have saved his life. Learn from his years of experience as a leader, and as a business educator, as though you were sitting in the very classrooms of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

The episode covers a wide range of topics, such as:
• The importance of direct communication
• Lessons from the life and times of Taylor Swift.
• Graham Weaver’s business and management philosophy.
• Important takeaways from Graham Weaver’s classes and lectures at Stanford.
• A simple (yet incredibly effective) method of absorbing knowledge.
• How you can turn your life around by increasing your awareness of just ONE thing!

Be it from dedicated meditation, or sober self-reflection, or even the soaring voice of Taylor Swift, we can guarantee that the wisdom shared by Graham Weaver in this episode will be instrumental to your success. This episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart is not just a set of rules that can yield instant success but it is also a way to unlock the success that you already had in you.

“You are an incredibly special person,” says Graham Weaver. All you need to realise is that you are enough.

Key Quotes
• “You can never go wrong when you’re saying what is true.” —Graham Weaver (01:52)
• “Everything you want in this life is on the other side of worse first.” —Graham Weaver (07:08)
• “If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful.” —Graham Weaver, quoting Michelangelo (12:39)

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Managing Growing Enterprises
05:08 Living an Asymmetrical Life
10:22 What You Can Learn From Taylor Swift
13:32 Meditation and Enlightenment
16:08 Matt Abraham's 3 Questions
21:54 Conclusions & Credits

Relevant Links:
Graham Weaver: https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/graham-weaver/

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