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Over the course of her career, Kristin Myers has risen from finance reporter to etf.com editor in chief. In this clip from the latest episode of Financial Freestyle with Ross Mac, Myers shares her advice for approaching new job opportunities.
“Someone out there right now is half as good as you and is going quite confidently into either interviewing for the role that you want or is in the role that you would like to have and doing it half as well as you would,” she says. “When it comes to any job that you want, salary, time to do salary negotiations, I want you to start thinking of yourself as a mediocre but incredibly confident person, and then go do what they would do.”
Mac calls it confidence, but Myers prefers audacity. “I literally try to live my life like that. If I had nothing but audacity, what would I do?”
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This post was written by Meredith Lawrence.
Someone out there right now is half as good as you and is going quite confidently into either interviewing for the role that you want or is in the role that you would like to have and doing it half as well as you would.
I say that to say that there’s a lot of mediocre people out there that have the boldness and the audacity of confidence.
And so it might as well be you.
So when it comes to any job that you want salary time to do salary negotiations, I want you to start thinking of yourself as a mediocre but incredibly confident person and then go do what they would do because honestly, those people have zero shame and zero self awareness that they’re not that great and they’re going out there and doing it.
They are, they are right now.
So why can’t it be you?
Confidence is key.
I call it audacity, but I call it audacity.
And I try to, I literally try to live my life like that.
If I had nothing but audacity, what would I do?
II I literally love that audacity.
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