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Ginni Rometty

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And he's like, why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And for me, it internalized this feeling that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And I am going to say something that's a bit stereotyped that it resonates with many, many women, and I'll ask you if it does after, is that they're the most harsh critic of themselves.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And so this idea that I won't grow unless I can feel uncomfortable doesn't mean I always have to show it, by the way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

So that's why I meant growth and comfort can never coexist.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

I got โ€“ I was like, he's exactly right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Now, the end of that story is I went in and I took the job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

When I went back to the man who was really my mentor looking out for me, and he looked at me and he said, don't ever do that again.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And I said, I understand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Because it was okay to be uncomfortable.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

I didn't have to use โ€“ I mean โ€“

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Now I would take stock of the things I can do, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And really think, or I look for times to be uncomfortable because I know if I am nervous, like, I don't know if you're nervous to meet me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

We never met in real person.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

No, you're not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

But then you're, it means you're learning something, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

So that to me matters.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Yeah, I think that's a good point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 โ€“ Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Very good point.