I'm an attorney. I don't teach theory — I teach what I've watched happen, over and over, when capable people misjudge a moment.
I've sat across the table from people who lost partnerships, lost businesses, lost custody, and lost the deal they'd worked years for. Not because they weren't smart. They were the smartest people in the room.
They lost because they said one thing too many. Reacted one second too fast. Handed over control without ever realizing they'd done it.
None of them had a confidence problem. They had a power leak problem — and they couldn't see it until it had already cost them.
That's the whole difference between the people who keep their leverage and the people who give it away: the prepared ones already know where their leaks are before they sit down. That's exactly what this is.
— Attorney Lenina Hurdle