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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:03:01 JST Adrianna Tan

   I used to be terrified of public speaking

   https://youtu.be/X9gGYZ9G_d4

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:06:36 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I don’t have an easy answer to ‘what I did about it’!

     It was just something I had to do, a lot.

     By not obsessing over individual things and just acknowledging how my brain works differently: as long as I can get into the flow of a story I am trying to tell, I am mostly there with that.

     I also had to give myself space to learn, and frankly flub many times in the past. Now I think i quite like doing this

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     SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:18:17 JST SnoopJ

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     @skinnylatte it's a very affirming power to acquire

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:20:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Christopher Neugebauer

     @chrisjrn I saw this some time ago. Thank you for reminding me of it! For lots of ND folks, perfectionism can be a driving force, or something that just stands in the way

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     Christopher Neugebauer (chrisjrn@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:20:18 JST Christopher Neugebauer

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     @skinnylatte (also one of my favourite interviews on grief, and perfectionism, and quite a lot of things that I learned a lot about)

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     Christopher Neugebauer (chrisjrn@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:20:19 JST Christopher Neugebauer

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     @skinnylatte I read in this [0] interview with Stephen Colbert that learning to get actually good as a performer meant learning to "love the bomb" – i.e. realising that you _need_ to have bad experiences to learn to stop fearing having a bad experience.

     I learned a lot from that.

     [0] https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 23:27:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Vesna Manojlović

     @becha yep putting it on my blog in a sec. Will share

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     Vesna Manojlović (becha@social.v.st)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 23:27:16 JST Vesna Manojlović

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     @skinnylatte will you publish your slides somewhere too? I like to read things :) Thanks!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 00:12:10 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Rich Unger

     @richunger thank you!!

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     Rich Unger (richunger@macaw.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 00:12:11 JST Rich Unger

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     @skinnylatte I watched this and just wanted to say this talk is fantastic and inspirational.