Brad Beeler

The problem is people use that gut instinct in personal and professional relationships, not understanding that bad people can hack that first impression.

And we put horns and halos on people too quickly.

All right.

And it's one thing when we move past that first impression, we've got to be very, very careful about taking into account what people are putting out to us.

So I like to hack that impression.

And what I mean by it is I want to have a great handshake.

I want to have a dry handshake.

It's going to be warm.

If I'm seated at an event, I'm going to be sitting on my hands so that it's warm and it's dry.

The worst thing we can do

is have a wet, cold handshake.

And I'm sure you've had people do that, that limp fish handshake.

And it's terrible because it's the first thing we do.

It's the last thing we do in most personal and professional relationships.

And that's what scientifically is what people remember, the first and last thing of that interaction.

So that's an easy hack.

I like to have warm hands.

I like to have a dry, actually spray antiperspirant on my hands before I do a lot of speaking engagements or a lot of my interviews.

So I know I'm going to have that taken care of.

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