The Easy Button: Cut Through the Distractions, Eliminate Overthinking, and Simplify Your Path to Success by Daryl Braham

Author:Daryl Braham
Format: epub

Finding Patterns

Now that we’ve solved the “I don’t know how to effectively read” problem, we can move on to the imposter syndrome problem. If all your friends can read twelve books a year, you certainly can too.

How can you solve feeling like an imposter in front of a group of your peers? Stop being an imposter. How? It starts with your thinking. It is the same example as if you always think you are terrible at remembering names. If you think about it, it will become reality. So, to stop thinking you’re an imposter, stop thinking you’re an imposter. The Easy Button here is to change what you are thinking as a first step and realize that if you read even one book on a subject matter, you are already on your way to fixing the problem. Even better, patterns start emerging as you read multiple books on the same subject.

Many years ago, I learned a valuable lesson in the world of volunteering. I was on the board of a local association when the Chair shared that the long-term instructor for our group’s ethics classes was retiring and would be unable to teach the upcoming continuing education class. He asked several times if anyone in the room would be willing to step in for this one class. I was smart enough to stay silent, only to have the CEO of the organization speak up and say, “Daryl would be great at this.”

Extensive conversations later, and I agreed to do this one class. I had been told many times I was a good speaker. I figured, with some work, I could pull this off rather easily. This couldn’t be that hard, could it?

It was.

The textbook, which I now had to read as a textbook, was almost 500 pages long. This was a three-hour continuing education class, which I had never done before, and I now had to study and know this 500-page book. It contained 17 Articles and hundreds of Standards of Practice. Imposter syndrome was very real in me until a very wise expert helped me.

As I was seeking advice, another well-respected speaker I knew well shared with me that the simple fact that I had read that book already gave me more knowledge than 99 percent of the people who would be in the class. I didn’t have to memorize everything, and just a few nuggets were all I needed to help the class get better. It was a mind-blowing moment for me that something as complicated as teaching on a 500-page manual had an Easy Button too.

Fast-forward twenty years. That one class I agreed to teach has led me to be certified to teach in several states. I’ve now taught hundreds of classes on this and other subjects. All because of agreeing and feeling like an imposter to teach one class, one time, to fill in for the expert who was retiring.

In this case, I read and reread one big textbook. I saw patterns in the teaching, and I found nuggets I could use.

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