How to Answer ANY Question (Even If You Don't Know The Answer!)

I'm going to show you how to answer any high-pressure question on the spot without going blank. I'm talking about when your boss puts you on the spot in front of your team, or when a client asks you something you don't know the answer to, or even when you get asked an interview question that catches you off guard. As long as you follow these exact three steps in this video, you'll never go blank again. I've tested this process in high-stake meetings to stages of up to 10,000 people, and it works. So here's how to do it. the first thing i would do is i would pause to collect my thoughts and i'll give myself as long as of a pause as i need so that i don't start to freak out the mental block happens when you're trying to come up with an answer in one second in half a second in a millisecond that's what causes the panic the anxiety which is then going to inevitably lead to a mental blank whereas when you pause take a deep breath as you pause and take a deep breath that creates mental clarity that helps you calm your nervous system down and in that state you are much more likely to give yourself the best chance to find a good response people tend to think that answering a question quickly makes them look good makes them look smart when you answer a question really quickly it doesn't do that it makes it seem as if you didn't put any thought into the answer because if you asked me a question and you said hey Vin how do you answer a high-pressure situation oh I know how to do that the first thing you're gonna do is you're just gonna a pause and then after you pause you're going to use a framework and after you use the framework you can deliver it confidently most people just speak when they're just winging things and they think that's going to help them create a really good career that's why no it doesn't when you answer a question without taking a moment to think about what the person said it looks as if you don't care when you ask me this if I paused and then now I answer your question that's a confident pause that's a pause of me processing what you're saying carefully considering what i'm going to say next and then sharing my thoughts now there's a few key things i want to say here if you look to the side and you think and you raise a hand up and you start to think about something like this or you go into the thinker pose and you start to think this is a powerful pose to move into because it shows people now i'm processing now that's a good pause however if you pause and then you you slouch and then you look down and then you're you're fidgeting with your hands that's a negative pause because they'll perceive that pause as you being anxious and you not knowing the answer. So there's two different types of pauses. One where I'm freaking out and I don't know the answer and you caught me out. One where I'm being really composed and I'm thinking about how to answer this in a way that adds the most value to you. So just notice that within body language cues alone plays a very important part in that. The second thing that I'd say is if you pause for a good two to three seconds and you can't in that moment think about the optimal reply then be straightforward with the person that's in front of you say they asked you a question about marketing so i'm going to create a mock scenario then how should i use marketing organic marketing to get more leads for the business that i'm running emily i'd love to share with you a thoughtful answer let me ask you this would it be helpful if i met with you later today and i'll give you a comprehensive answer because i've been through content creation for the last 15 years of my life and i want to give you the most meaningful answer so i want a little more time to think on that is that okay for me to take a bit more time to think on it and give you the most valuable answer possible later today fantastic i'll i'll set up a time let's why don't we set up a time so i can think about it over lunch and i'll share with you the experience that i have something like that is fine it's totally fine i think we panic because we think we have to prove ourselves by answering them in the moment off the cuff straight away people don't want a rushed answer they want an answer that adds the most value to their lives and people are willing to wait for that the next thing i'm going to say is that what increases your chances of being able to answer on the spot is i would use a framework because when someone asks you vin can you teach us how to create organic content that creates leads let's say that's the example my brain now is freaking out because there are so many different things you can do for content creation that helps generate leads for example my brain's going crazy because i'm i'm thinking about all the different things that you can do whereas when you use the framework the one thing so i'll show you this in action someone asked you a question hey then what's something that i can do when it comes to content creation to get more leads organically listen the one thing i would say about content creation whether it's for lead generation or views or building the number of followers the one thing that i would say is consistency consistency is the most important thing that's the most important strategy that i've discovered as the universal truth to become better at generating more content and generating more leads just keep creating content and as you create content you'll get better and better and better through consistency and you'll learn how to get more views and then you'll learn how to get more leads but the underlying foundation is consistency i'm able to deliver that and i use the sentence the one thing now the most beautiful thing about this is that i'm not saying that that that is everything to do with content creation i'm saying that if there was one thing to focus on that's what i would focus on and if you haven't been through a framework class with me i put together a free two-hour crash course where i share three powerful communication frameworks to help you improve the way you speak while you're under pressure so that you can come across more clear concise and coherent in any situation just click the link in the description or you can scan the qr code that's on screen again it's completely free and thousands of people have been through it so go check it out and by doing this i now have given myself time to think more on this topic talk on the topic in a focused way so i've talked about consistency but what you've done there is you've brought yourself time to better answer their question in the most valuable way possible the third thing you do at the end of you using the framework the one thing the third thing you do is you ask a question and the question you ask right at the end is once again depending on the context is did you want me to go deeper on that topic did you want to get more granular in terms of the strategy i can look at their facial expressions if they're smiling and nodding that's what they're after and at the end i check in do you want more do you want to go deeper on this do you want to go into pragmatic strategies on how to create hooks and bodies and ctas called actions etc do you want me to do that and they might say yes and if they say yes then you go down deeper in the rabbit hole the danger in not using frameworks and answering questions on the spot is you end up speaking out your thought process this is scientifically how your thinking process looks yeah this is a scientific diagram that i'm drawing and when someone asks you something about content creation and you don't follow a framework your brain starts to go oh of course i can tell you about content creation and doing things organically you know the first thing you're going to understand from a foundational level is you've got to be consistent the second thing i'd tell you about too is that you're going to write a really good hook a valuable what you're saying is the value is lost in you rambling so what a framework does a framework distills your thinking that's what it does this distillation process here that process right here that's what frameworks do because it simply distills your thinking into something that is more concise more coherent and it's going to be more credible as you communicate to that point in that concise way pause once you learn the frameworks pick a framework share just one thought about that topic ask a question do you want to go deeper that's the best way for you to navigate that situation

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