127. How Can You Be a Better Communicator?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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How do you express yourself when you're not sure what you want to say? What’s the number one way to get people to listen to you? And why are letters to advice columns always well-written? Plus: An update to the NSQ drinking game.

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0:00.0	I am here, hear me roar.
0:04.1	I am Antelod Duckworth.
0:06.5	I'm Stephen Dovner.
0:07.5	And you're listening to those stupid questions.
0:11.0	Today on the show, how can you become a better communicator?
0:15.1	I'm just gonna mimic Barack Obama.
0:17.5	You sound a lot like Barack Obama now that I think about it.
0:26.3	Stephen, you recently emailed me for my advice.
0:29.4	I did.
0:30.4	I remember being on my phone and I read your email quickly and I typed out my reply even
0:36.0	more quickly.
0:37.0	Oh thanks.
0:38.0	It's nice to know how much you care.
0:39.0	That's right.
0:40.0	So just want to know that I hardly thought about it at all.
0:42.8	And so these are the things that we should think and keep to ourselves and not say aloud.
0:47.2	But it's okay because I'm a good friend and I can handle it.
0:49.7	Now actually, your answer was really useful.
0:52.9	So let me give a little context so people know what we're talking about here.
0:55.9	I recently played in a golf tournament in California and it was an amazing and fascinating
1:02.7	experience because the groupings were a golf pro.
1:07.6	These were the what they call the seniors, the 50 over PGA tour players.
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