We fear looking stupid in conversations, especially when caught unprepared. The speaker breaks fear into three types: future anxiety about what might happen, past regret replaying old events, and present discomfort that makes us hesitate socially.
Nobody wants to look stupid. And if you're talking— if you are talking to someone and you don't know what to say because they've just shared something that you just don't know how to respond to, your biggest fear is that you're gonna look stupid. Um, and— or, you know, anxious is like the— to use the word that you used. But, you know, the way that I think about it is fear basically has 3 manifestations. There's the fear based on anxiety. I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know what to expect. Like, there's— you're projecting into the future. I don't know what's gonna happen here. There's the fear of the past, which often manifests as some form of regret. Like this terrible thing happened to me. It was all their fault. It was all my fault.
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