Dethmer: Owning psychological projections exponentially increases learning agility
Jim Dethmer · #60 Jim Dethmer: Leading Above the Line · Jun 18, 2019 · at 1:27:45
Executive coach Jim Dethmer discusses self-awareness and psychological projection techniques with Shane Parrish.
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“If everything you're complaining about, really complaining about in people in your world, if you were willing to eat the projection and see how the things you're complaining about other people are true about you would increase your learning agility exponentially.”
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