In any meeting that matters, the question that hurts is the one you didn't see coming. You can't prepare for it by reading your own notes again, because you already agree with yourself.
So before anything important, I stop defending my points and have the model attack them.
Here are my talking points for [MEETING]: [paste them]. Now play three skeptical people from that room. Pick whoever is actually going to be there: - a senior decision-maker (your boss, a director, a board member) - a cross-functional partner or technical reviewer - a peer, a customer, or a reporter Generate the 5 hardest questions each would ask. For each, draft a concise, honest answer.
Pick the people who'll actually be in your room. Then read the questions it gives back. Most will be easy. One or two will land, the thing you were quietly hoping nobody would raise. Now you've got an honest answer ready instead of a frozen pause.
The answers it drafts are a starting point. Tighten them in your own words so they sound like you when it counts. Run this once before a real meeting and you'll never walk in without it again.
