Larry says stillness before a meeting is not a wellness habit, it’s a competitive one. A calm nervous system reads the room better than an anxious one, full stop. You can’t hold the perfect listening position from Larry’s SuperModel framework if your mind is still racing from traffic.
The pen-drop close depends entirely on your ability to sit in silence without flinching. You set the pen down, stop talking, and wait for them to pick it up to initial your points. That kind of stillness has to be practiced somewhere before it’s needed in a negotiation.
Larry’s claim is that a few quiet minutes before a pitch changes how the whole meeting goes, not the content, just the delivery. Whether or not it’s meditation in the formal sense, the function is the same: empty the noise before you need the signal.
In this clip you can see the difference between someone reacting and someone responding, and the gap between those two is where deals live. A reactive mind fills silence, a settled one lets silence do the work for it.
This is not about incense or apps, it’s about arriving at the table with a clear head instead of a loud one. Treat the quiet minutes before a meeting as part of the prep, not a luxury you skip when you’re busy.
Details: Watch the calm before Larry’s pitch
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