I like watching people . It started getting obvious to me that these softer skills mattered . But here's where some of these skills kick in .
And yes , I'm working hard and yes , I'm doing the thing . But I have a feeling a lot of this is coming from the things that I was also gifted predominantly for my mother , which are the soft skills , the things that we did not grow . How many people here by show of hands are over 40 raise your hands .
Let's clap it up for some of the youngsters in here . Um So what some of the youngsters in here definitely don't realize is for the over 40 year old crowd in here , we didn't talk about empathy , we didn't talk about , you know , some of these softer traits in hard places , you know , we didn't talk about that in business . It was , you know , who , you know , n nice guys finish last was a thing that a lot of us grew up hearing and something in the last 15 years clicked for me where I just didn't believe that to be true .
It started getting obvious to me that these softer skills mattered . But here's where some of these skills kick in . I was giving a lot of thought to like , what do I want to talk about ?
Ok . The art skills were the things that I focused on . And I think our society is focused on for a very , very , very long time .
