Larry’s SuperModel idea is not about vanity but about what your hands and your clothes signal before you say a word. Pack fewer clothes and more paper: a stack of business cards, a real notebook, and a pen you actually intend to use in the room. The pen matters more than people think, since the pen-drop close only works if you were visibly writing with it all weekend, not pulling it out once at the very end.
Dress deliberately rather than comfortably, and Larry’s advice to younger operators is to wear a tie specifically because it reads older and gets you taken more seriously among strangers. Leave the phone in the bag more than you check it, since the SuperModel listening position, upright, present, and taking notes, breaks the moment you glance at a screen. Before you pack a single shirt, run PQRST on the weekend itself: preview who is likely to be there, question what you actually need from each person, and read anything public about the event.
A weekend like an Austin F1 race weekend draws a specific kind of room, dealmakers passing through for three days, so pack for meetings that happen standing up, not sitting down. Bring fewer promotional materials than you think you need, since one clean one-pager beats a folder of glossy leave-behinds nobody reads on the flight home.
Bring a printed list of who you are trying to see, because a phone screen full of notifications looks like distraction, not preparation. Comfortable shoes matter more than a second blazer, since most of the actual networking happens standing in hallways and hotel lobbies, not seated at the main event.
Pack a plan for a thank-you note or two, since karma here is tracked in who follows up first, not who talked the most. The goal of the packing list is the same as the goal of the weekend: to show up looking like someone who already belongs in the room.
Details: Watch Larry on SuperModel presence
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