The people in front of you size up whether to trust you in the first few seconds, before your logic ever arrives, and everything you say afterward gets filtered through that verdict. René Rodriguez describes that gap: the one between what you project and what you actually deliver. The gap was doing all the talking, and it was saying, Don’t trust this yet.”
Source: LinkedIn, August 1, 2026. Link.
The most dangerous person in any room is the one who has never failed. Not because they lack ability, but because they have never had to reconcile their confidence with a result that told them no.”
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