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Designing Better Conversations with Fred Dust

Minds and Mics

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Is Self-Consciousness a Big Obstacle to Better Conversations?

I think it's really relatable difficulty of feeling too self conscious in a conversation. I talk about how I would, when I would be on stage giving talks, I would feel like the context that was set up for being on stage in front of a huge crowd of people was formal. And so what I would do is like maybe a third of the way through, I would take off my suit coat and then I never wore suit. I go, I always wear jeans. I've never not worn jeans, even though in the White House I wore jeans. So those are real, but those are physical prompts that I was giving myself to be like, you don't have to be afraid

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