Toolkit

The Dumbest-in-the-Room Audit

Are you in rooms where you're the student?

Score the last twelve months. Nothing you answer is stored or sent anywhere; scoring happens in your browser. About 2 minutes.

Print this and score it by hand: circle one answer per question. Add up the points (first answer 0, second 1, third 2, fourth 3) and divide by the maximum to get your percentage.

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1. At the last conference you attended:

Cheapest CE, back row, left at five.Decent sessions, dinner alone.Premium room, front row.Premium room, front row, and the evening is where the real work happened.

2. In your peer group, you are:

I don't have one.Usually the smartest person in the room.About the middle.Regularly the dumbest, on purpose.

3. When someone describes a strategy you don't know:

Nod and move on.Look it up later.Ask a question, carefully."Wait, why do you do it that way?" Out loud.

4. Books or podcasts in the last twelve months that changed how you run the firm:

None.One or two.A handful.Twenty books, and the algorithm is feeding the next one.

5. Your commute and the lawn:

Radio.Podcasts, sometimes.Audiobooks most days.A virtual apprenticeship. Every drive, every mow.

6. Your network of other advisors:

Competitors. I don't share.A few contacts I see yearly.People I trade ideas with.An intelligence network I text between events. A cheat code.

7. When you learn from a mistake, it's usually:

The same mistake, again.My own, after it hurt.My own, once.Somebody else's, before it costs me anything.

8. Reinvestment in your own development this year:

Zero. Development is expensive.The minimum CE.A course or a coach.Conferences, courses, coaching, and the office upgrades they pointed at.

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