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Ep 208 – Urgency Is an Impression
Meta Description: Urgency feels real, but it’s often just an impression. Scott Smith explains how leaders lose authority by granting assent too quickly under pressure.🎙️ Episode SummaryUrgency rarely arrives as a fact.It arrives as a feeling.In this episode, Scott Smith reframes urgency through a Stoic lens. Not as a command, but as an impression that enters the mind asking for agreement.Leaders don’t lose control because urgency exists.They lose it because they grant assent before reason has spoken.This episode slows the moment, naming urgency as tension and examining how judgment determines…
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