Back to episode — Episode 3022 CWSA 11/18/25
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coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better. Call it the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. All right. If you're just signing on this morning, there's some kind of massive cloud problem that's taking down X. For most of the morning I thought it was taking down Locals. I tried to do the pre-show but it glitched me out…
← Previous segment →ourse when I was in my 20s, and it teaches you how to navigate this exact situation. And by exact, I mean you had to do some kind of public presentation, podcast or anything else, and things went wrong. You're actually trained to do that. So I'm doing what I'm trained to do. So if it looks easy to me, that's not natural skill. Training. I'm just used to it.
I also don't have any normal sense of embarrassment. So I'm not worried about things going wrong at all because I don't have any sense of embarrassment. And most of you would understand. I mean, if everything went terribly wrong, you'd all understand, right? It wouldn't be a big deal.
And let's see. Here's another trick for public presentations. You may have heard me say this one before, but it applies really well right now. That in order to be interesting in a public sense, you have to create the, well, you don't have to, but it's really handy. If you can create the illusion that you're in danger or
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somebody's in danger. So danger is what gets people's attention because it's a busy world. We have stuff to look at. Can't look at everything all at the same time. So what I'm doing is creating a sense of danger. A small danger. The danger is that I would embarrass myself or humiliate myself by not being prepared. Nope. No problem yet. So yesterday an interesting thing happened. You probably want…
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