Lesson from 8 figure entrepreneur
Remember how I closed that 300k deal? That involves hanging around with the CEO of the company, an 8-figure entrepreneur. He's a beast. Part of my role is hiring A-Players to scale his YouTube. So I was on a de-briefing call to talk about who I thought was one of our ‘best candidates’. “That candidate is weak, Andrew. They’re weak because they don’t have the proper speech patterns.” Proper speech patterns? WTF. Our call ended before I was able to dig deeper… I couldn’t stop thinking about what he said. I NEED to know the answer. I want to be an A-Player. And I know you are who you surround yourself with, so I NEED to be able to SPOT A-Players. So right when our next call started, I asked him what speech pattern do A-players possess? He paused. Thought for 10 seconds. “It’s just about being concise. That’s the differentiator between an A-player and everyone else.” And it made so much sense to me… Rambling is an indicator of poor, unclear thoughts. Clear thinking leads to clear speaking. C-players are unclear. A-players are concise.