James Sexton
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
is telling me about something that's upsetting to her.
That she doesn't want me to fix it.
That sometimes she wants me to fix it.
And by the way, I'm exceedingly good at solving problems.
People pay me a thousand dollars an hour to solve complex problems for them, right?
So I'm great at it.
So I'm like, oh my God, this is my toolkit.
This is great.
This is my toolkit.
Like you're telling me a problem you're having with your sister or you're telling me a problem you're having with your boss.
I solve problems for a living, really complicated ones.
This is going to be great.
I'm highly qualified for this and I'm going to be a champion.
And then you're going to go, Jim, you're the best ever.
I love you so much.
Let's go have sex.
But in fact, very often what they want is not, well, here's what you should do.
You should talk to this person.
Well, have you tried doing X, Y, Z?
They want, wow, that must've been hard.