Opening
Evan LaPointe (00:00:00): The brain is like a college campus that has different departments in it. Most people rely on their history department way too much. If you instead send things to the more experimental, open-minded science department, the more creative art department, you get dramatically better answers. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:13): I know you have a bunch of awesome advice on becoming more influential. Evan LaPointe (00:00:16): It's almost like you're playing Elden Ring or some video game....
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Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:13): I know you have a bunch of awesome advice on becoming more influential. Evan...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:12:19): So the advice here is if you're trying to influence...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Carry memory
LaPointe (01:07:19): Now assuming the relationship is in place, and we'll come back to that and talk about that because a whole very actionable framework to unpack, assuming the relationship is good, I think...
Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.
Low-ego framing
understand what are my preferences? What do I like to eat? Because if I don't know what I like, then I assume everybody else likes what I like, then I'm not going to be a very dynamic chef. I'm going...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (02:14:08): Evan, thank you so much for being here. Evan LaPointe (02:14:10): Thanks for having me. This has been really cool. Yeah. Lenny...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.