Here's What It's Like To Work With You

You hate your own voice on a recording. That's not me, you think. Except it is. Same thing's happening with your personality at work.

You’ve heard a recording of your own voice before. And you hated it.

That’s not my voice, you think. That’s not what I sound like.

Except it is.
It’s exactly what you sound like.
It’s the only voice anyone else has ever heard come out of your mouth.

The one you’re used to hearing is the fake one. It’s the one that reaches your ears through your own skull, filtered through bone and cartilage until it sounds nothing like what actually leaves your body.

You’ve been mishearing yourself your entire life and you never knew it.

As it turns out, you do the exact same thing with your personality.

You think you’re patient. You think you’re a good listener. You think you handle pressure well, delegate clearly, give considerate feedback.

You’ve been listening to yourself this whole time, and the version you hear sounds pretty reasonable, right?

But that’s like the bone-conduction version. That’s not how other people experience you.

Your team has their own experience of you.

It’s the one where you interrupt before someone finishes a thought because you’re already three steps ahead. The one where your “quick feedback” is really just bossing them around. The one where your calm exterior during a crisis makes them feel like you don’t care.

You didn’t build that version on purpose.
Nobody ever does.
You’ve just never seen it. Because you can’t see the label when you’re stuck inside the pickle jar.

I put together a prompt that reveals the version of you that other people actually experience. Not the polished 360 review written by someone protecting their own job. The real one.

What it’s actually like to sit across from you, report to you, get an email from you.

It’s not going to feel like your voice.
But that’s the whole point.

Run the prompt below.

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