The Dreaded Question, "Tell Me About Yourself"

Um, hmm, ahh, you see, well...When you’re asked the simplest question, “tell me about yourself,” do you get all tongue-tied not knowing where to start, what to say, what not to say, leaving you frozen?

Or do you fall in the other camp where you drone on and on...and on and bore yourself and the person across from you because you haven’t strung together anything relevant, interesting or consistent?

Generation X Women struggle with talking about themselves and it has been hurting us both in our career and as entrepreneurs.

This week, we’re talking about the psychology behind this question and telling you how to better prepare for the question, “tell me about yourself.” 

What you’ll learn in this episode:

What happens to the brain and how it gets hijacked to find the answer to this questionWe have 7 seconds to make a first impressionPeople only remember 10% of what you say so you need to ensure it's the right 10%

The way we lose our audience

We talk too much when we get nervous and we overcompensate with a lot of words. We don’t say enough. Our inner voice diminishing our worth comes full-force keeping us silenced or limitedWe speak using words and jargon we think is going to impress others but all it does is make us sound like everyone else or confused the person we’re talking toWe talk way too fast. Processing as we speak and talking through our thoughts leaving the other person working really hard to keep up (and they don’t want to be bothered)We don’t practice or prepare our answers so we can be succinct and directWe use a list of adjectives and think we need to be a walking resume.

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