You want to speak at a conference, but you have nothing to say
It is one of the most common reasons capable people never give a talk.
They have been in their industry for years. They have solved real problems, built real things, navigated real challenges. They have genuine insight, earned the hard way. And yet the moment the conference call for speakers opens — or someone casually asks whether they'd ever consider presenting — the same quiet conclusion arrives.
I don't have anything new to say. People already know this stuff. Someone better qualified should do it.
This is the Curse of Knowledge at work, and it is almost always wrong.
You have a unique voice, a unique perspective, a unique set of stories. Nobody else has lived your career, encountered the people you have encountered, solved the problems you have solved in the way you have solved them.
The question is rarely whether you have anything worth saying.
The question is how to find it.
You have a unique voice, a unique perspective, a unique set of stories. Nobody else has lived your career, encountered the people you have encountered, solved the problems you have solved in the way you have solved them.
The question is rarely whether you have anything worth saying.
The question is how to find it.
That is what this episode is about.
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