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Mirrored Judgements: Crafting Conscious Impressions

December 30, 2023 by Colin Gautrey

We’ve all passed fleeting judgements on colleagues’ punctuality or friends’ reliability. But while we’re instinctively evaluating others, they’re doing the same to us.
It becomes pivotal, then, to make conscious choices about the impressions we want to cast.
Are the judgements you silently register ones you’d be content with if directed at you? Rather than leaving it to chance, consciously sculpt the narrative.
Before the next critique forms, ask yourself: am I being intentional in the impression I’m creating?
Read: Crafting Your Impression (one of the Lessons in Extraordinary Influence)

 


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