128: How to Respond When You Embarrass Yourself...

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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I’m about to share a recent public moment that bothered me . . .

While watching a video clip from my recent appearance on the Pretty Intense podcast with Danica Patrick—an experience I thoroughly enjoyed—I couldn’t help but notice something: I kept saying a particular word. And not just once or twice.

Over the course of just a couple minutes, I couldn’t even keep my total in the single digits.

As someone who’s spent an entire career in public speaking and content creation, the more I said this word, the more the demons in my mind went into “media frenzy press conference mode.”

Prepare yourself: This is an honest reenactment of how embarrassment plays out in our heads. I hope this gives you a laugh and also helps you realize that you can take something like this and use it to turn a mortifying moment into an opportunity for growth.

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0:00.0	So not so long ago I did a podcast with Danica Patrick. She has this podcast called Pretty Intense.
0:07.1	She was interviewing me and well I watched a clip from that interview where I did say some
0:15.6	some quite good things, some things I was proud of like this. You know Guy Winch, a friend of mine,
0:23.0	he talked, he talked to me and said like everyone has this subjective kind of bar above which
0:29.2	everything becomes overwhelming, below which things are more enjoyable. Sure. And the problem is
0:34.4	if you go above that bar even a little bit, even the things that you previously enjoyed
0:38.6	can suddenly start being corrupted by the overwhelming stress you have and you stop enjoying
0:43.0	even the things that you were enjoying. By also couldn't help but notice that in the space of
0:50.0	this two-minute clip that I watched I said the word like and inordinate amount of times.
1:00.0	I hit like 28, I had a moment like a little crisis moment where I was like probably not a little
1:05.2	crisis moment that's me under playing it. I had a crisis moment where I was like I'm like I'm
1:10.4	I'm I'm really like I could literally tick off so many of the things that at 21 I would have said like
1:16.4	these are the things you know whether it's like the New York Times best seller or like
1:21.6	do tours around the world live in America that was like a dream was the idea of like living in the
1:26.9	States like my inspiration is like oh I'm like I've got so many ideas and I got like I really feel like
1:33.9	now me who spent an entire career in public speaking making videos airing them to the world
1:39.7	when I see myself doing something like this the conversation the experience going on inside my mind
1:48.2	looks a little bit like this water I noticed you said the word like about 20 times in two minutes
2:02.4	now was that part of the game plan today no no we we had a great game plan a lot of great words
2:12.9	prepared proud of a lot of the words we used today but we said don't want a little too much
2:22.9	is your problem of poor vocabulary or do you just hate sounding smart you serious with that
2:29.1	question mr. Hussie do you own a source yes can I ask everybody to move on from the questions
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