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All too often, we get hurt by someone or we get upset by someone. It could be a work colleague, it could be at home in our family life. And we are almost taught by society not to speak up. We are afraid of being laughed at. People could think we're weird, we could fail, and a lot of us, we think, well, we could lose the relationship and end up alone. It's fear. And so what it is, it's almost like non-communication born of fear. But great leaders, the best of the best, the most effective human beings on the planet all have one thing in common and they speak up and they share their truth. And the more you practice, again, quality of your performance is all about the quality of your practice. And the more you actually practice speaking up when you know you want to speak up, the more you will actually step into your next level of power. And the more you actually betray yourself by not speaking up when maybe someone in a restaurant is serving you and they're not being polite, or maybe a client is being disrespectful or maybe someone on the street is doing something that is dishonoring your humanity, every single time you swallow what you most need to say, you actually lose power. You actually become more and more impotent as a leader, as a producer, and as a human being, because you know this, we give away our power to the things that we avoid. The hard talks when you actually speak up are when you grow in power and you actually not only grow in power, you build intimacy in the relationship. Just think about it. When you actually speak up with someone and you tell them how you're feeling and you tell them what's most important to you, well, if's the right relationship, one that's meant to be in your life, whether it's professional or personal, that is really a gateway into the other person having the permission to open up as well. And then you have mature people talking about what's really most important versus sidestepping the truth.