The Importance of Stiffening Up

I really loved what he said at the end of the clip here. You think you're being smart using all those fancy words? No, people just want to throw a shoe at you. He says that when we get a pen in our hands, we suddenly stiffen up. That might be a emotional response that it's like you freeze, you go stiff. If something stiff, it doesn't move. It's not very flexible. And I guess in this context of writing, because he talks about being a professor and everything, I guess he's referring also to losing your human quality when communicating with other people. But if you think about it, it's good to think about your own