The Circle
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Practicing Hard Conversations

The conversations that matter most in a career are usually the ones we walk into cold. The raise ask. The disagreement with a boss. The negotiation. The hard feedback. The pitch.

We rehearse these in the shower, in the car, in the 30 seconds before we open the door. We almost never rehearse them out loud, with another person, where we can hear how we actually sound.

AI doesn't fix this completely. But it gets you 70% of the way there, and that's a lot more than 0%.

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