Ginni Rometty

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1,854 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2023 last heard 21 Feb

Ginni Rometty’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity · 2 Mar 2023 podcast

He says, I know you.

He's like, six months, you're going to be bored.

And all you can think of is what you don't know.

And he said, I know these other people.

You have way more skill than them and they think they could do it.

And he's like, why?

And for me, it internalized this feeling that

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.

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.

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

Right.

I got – I was like, he's exactly right.

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

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.

And I said, I understand.

Because it was okay to be uncomfortable.

I didn't have to use – I mean –

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

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.

We never met in real person.

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