When People Don't Understand You #shorts

4 Nov 2021 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment by Hadar Shemesh offering brief advice on what to do when someone asks you to repeat yourself. The speaker recommends pausing automatic negative self-talk and self-judgment ("autopilot") and not immediately assuming the worst about your speaking ability.

Come again? What was that? Could you repeat that? Now, the moment that happens, you might feel like, you know, your heart sinks and you're like, crap, what am I supposed to do now? Or oh, no, they think that I can't speak. So the first thing is to don't let that autopilot in your brain start running. Right? Like all the negative thoughts or self judgment and all of that, we're going to put that on the side for a sec.