How to Stand Out Without Showing Off

A cheat sheet for quiet people who want to be seen

Michael Thompson
Forge
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6 min readDec 4, 2020

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“What the hell am I doing here?” I thought to myself. “This place isn’t for me!”

Cigarette packs, coffee cups, and manilla folders were everywhere. I felt like I’d just walked into the set of a bad sales movie. The year was 2003. The place was Baltimore. The people who weren’t screaming into…

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Michael Thompson
Forge
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I grew up stuttering and now teach storytelling to Fortune 500s, MBA students, and first graders • Free "story" guide: https://bit.ly/3h1KZeT