A Little Happier: Why Would an Accomplished Juggler Deliberately Drop a Prop?
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In his speaking, Winston Churchill often deliberately made mistakes. He understood that an imperfect speech would be more persuasive and moving than a perfect speech, and he chose to make his performance better by making it worse.
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| 1:59.7 | One of my favorite secrets of adulthood is |
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