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It’s the teacher you need.
Don’t judge the book by its title. It’s not a good one.
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> I realize it’s unfair to map physical appearance to awkwardness Doesn't seem like you do (given that you do exactly that in the same sentence).
The cold hard truth that I realized I long time ago is what I call the “two strikes rule”. When you are short (as am I), you already have two strikes against you in society. You can’t be “short and” - short and broke, short and mean, short and shy, short and fat (which I was until I was 18).
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This may sound like a dumb question, but which person in the before picture, and which person in the after? It's like four different people. :D
I think rightmost in the old, and leftmost in the new
https://www.amazon.com/Awkward-Science-Socially-Thats-Awesom...
even though I felt intensely envious for the author because he got the support from his parents and the people around him that I didn't get.
There are many things I do well. I can pick up the phone and make cold calls like it isn't anything. I can speak extemporaneously about intellectual topics in front of an audience and have no fear.
The form of awkwardness that I still struggle with is that I often do and say offputting things that hurt people's feelings or otherwise alienate them that I struggle to control -- this turns up more with women than men.
For instance I have a hobby of printing "three-sided cards" like
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and before long I had a box of them stuffed in my backpack, gym bag, glove box of my car to show to people and give them away. What I found out is that 100% of women want to see a picture of my wife but I didn't have one in my portable collection.
It seems strange at first because any normal person carries pictures of family in their pockets but when I started printing those cards it was anime characters, art reproductions, information graphics, etc. The first numbered card that had a photograph I took was 0021 and I didn't have a reproducible system for photographs until 0116.
That system is full of design rules and one of them is that I print many copies of the card above, have them coming out of my ears, all of my "wallets" have multiple copies of it. It's not only "protective coloration" that makes me less creepy but it's also a marketing tool for the riding lessons she teaches.
Ecstasy. I had massive problems speaking with people. I ended up going to a rave with some friends, took some molly, had an amazing time talking to people and then realized that if I could do that with a drug then I could probably do it without a drug. (I haven’t done e in over a decade). I still had some issues with public speaking so during my mba I forced myself to give every presentation possible. This largely so…
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Practice. Practice practice practice. Which sounds daunting, but… …now, I realize it’s unfair to map physical appearance to awkwardness, but…let’s take a look at me in 2008 versus 2021. https://imgur.com/7sR0qKt Can you infer I might have been awkward? Because I was awkward. Always had been, and in a lot of ways, I am still am. But I am vastly better than I used to be. And it was practice. Slow, slow, slow practice.…
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Let’s not advocate schedule one controlled substances as the solution Even though it probably works
US drug scheduling is incredibly political and does not reflect how harmful a drug is. As an example, cocaine is a schedule 2 drug but magic mushrooms, which has the lowest potential for harm (even lower than caffeine), is a schedule 1 drug.