I thought I was a good speaker. But turning on Microsoft's Speaker Coach in my Teams meetings was a humbling experience.
Every 3-4 minutes, I mutter "Uh...".
In 3 out of 5 of calls, I speak without varying pace or tone.
Every 7 calls, I say "You guys" once. In fact, there was one call where I said, "Let's say" 12 times in 14 minutes. (I have no idea why.)
But one word surprised me.
Maybe". I said that 189 times in 2 weeks.
As part of my 2022 goals, I wanted to run 50 experiments. And I ran out of hypotheses.
Now, in October, I discovered that I literally speak out one testable hypothesis every time I say "Maybe" -- about once every 10 minutes!
Read on for more...
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