Gregg Braden

I was the youngest, so I was the first tech ops manager at Cisco Systems, 1990, when they got the RFP for protocol converter so that all the branches of the armed services computers could talk to all the others before the first Gulf War.

And when I would go into the boardroom with an idea, and I knew that I was gonna be criticized,

I'm also a cancerian male.

Yeah, well, that's my sign.

My birth sign's in cancer.

Right, I understand what it is, but I've never heard the term.

And very emotion plays a big role.

Now, it doesn't have to.

You know, it's a stereotype, but it happens to be true for me.

Right.

Emotion plays a big role.

Criticism, coming from an alcoholic family.

My father was the...

the abuser and the criticizer.

And I've spent my whole life working to, I'm still healing from that.

So when somebody would criticize my ideas, it'd be hurtful.

I'd take it personally.

When you move into the coherence,

And you're not taking that criticism through good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure.

Now you can be much more objective and you can listen to it.