All Feedback Talk

Presented byChris Garbe
August 1, 2025
8m

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Summary

Stop consuming content passively. If you can't name ONE specific behavior you'll change after reading or watching something, you're just entertaining yourself. Period. Your time is the ONLY currency you have when starting out. Yet you're giving it away like cheap candy at Halloween. Look at your calendar right now. Is it empty? That's not an invitation for others to claim it - that's YOUR time to invest in yourself. Want to master any skill? Break it down into specific actions. Stop hiding behind vague terms like "charismatic" or "confident." There are exactly 12-15 concrete behaviors that create these traits. Master them one by one. The life you're living today is a direct result of what you did 6-12 months ago. So protect your time fiercely, take massive action, and stop waiting for permission to become extraordinary.

Key Takeaways

  1. Every time you consume content, you must identify a specific behavior you will change as a result, otherwise you are merely entertaining yourself rather than learning.

  2. The life you're living today is a direct result of the work done 6-12 months ago, which means your current calendar activities will determine your future reality.

  3. Experts become self-sustaining in their fields because they develop enough skill to find rewards in multiple aspects of their work, creating positive feedback loops that make them want to practice more.

  4. Character traits like "charisma" or "patience" should be broken down into specific actionable behaviors (like standing straight, making eye contact, nodding while listening) rather than treated as mysterious innate qualities.

Action Items

  • 1

    Block 2 hours every morning in your calendar labeled "Personal Investment Time" for the next 30 days

  • 2

    Break down "confidence" into 10 specific observable behaviors and practice one each week

  • 3

    Record yourself speaking for 5 minutes daily and identify 3 specific areas for improvement

  • 4

    Create a "wins journal" documenting 3 small daily victories to build evidence of progress

  • 5

    Track every piece of content consumed for 7 days, writing down one specific behavior change from each

Transcript

Every time you watch or you consume a piece of content, you read a book, if you think, what behavior I'm going am I going to change as a result of this? If the answer is nothing, you wasted your time and you pretended to be learning, but you were really entertaining yourself. If you see that you have an empty calendar, most people assume that if someone asks you for that time, it's therefore theirs. And it's only not theirs when someone else has claimed it, which means that your time only belong...

Chris Garbe

Chris Garbe

Founder of Speaker Suite | Builder | Leader

About

Psych major who discovered speakers lose 90% of their impact to memory science. After a year playing semi-pro hockey in Paris (and perfecting my baguette game), I combined my psychology background with AI obsession to solve it. Former special ed teacher who knows every mind learns differently. Now in Valencia, building AI tools that help speakers' wisdom stick. Into LLMs, voice synthesis, computer vision - basically anything that turns one talk into lasting impact. I'm a creator and builder at heart!

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