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How to Build Better Relationships (Work and Personal) with Michael Bungay Stanier

The One You Feed

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The Obnoxiousness of Shortening Your Name

"I prefer to be called Michael, not Mike or Mick. How often do you get called Mike? I'm curious how often like these just really obnoxious things happen," he says. "My wife really doesn't like vacuuming at all, but she loves to run a wet thing around the floor and kind of, and it honestly took us 20 years to discover this." 'It drives me nuts the way that I mean, you know, I stack the kitchen sink like a Scandinavian architect,' he adds.

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