How to Think on the Spot

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tessa recently had to think on her feet and nearly froze. She goes through her thought processes with Stevie and they both work out the best way to prevent yourself from covering your face in your hands while screaming I DON'T KNOW IM STUPID IN SORRY. Which often doesn’t work in meetings.

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0:00.0	Oh quick thick on the spot. Hello, oh God, what? Hello, uh, hello Stevie?
0:17.0	No! Oh no!
0:19.0	Welcome to Nobody Panic. The podcast where we figure out how to do things.
0:23.0	This episode is about how to think on the spot, brought to me by my co-host, Tessa Coates.
0:28.0	Hello, it's me. I've been very inspired recently to discuss...
0:32.0	Ah, thinking on the spot spot I'm Stevie Martin
0:34.7	but I didn't say my her name oh yes sorry yeah see we're so thrown we can't
0:39.6	even think properly I feel sick as do I I was very inspired by this recently I'll hold my reveal of why
0:46.8	I'm really excited a bit of fun and I thought I think that be a really interesting topic to discuss. I think it's quite a tricky one.
0:55.0	In fact this week I was doing a job and I had to think on the spot and I said very loudly,
1:01.0	I don't want to be thinking on the spot again today if that's okay so
1:05.2	genuinely used that exact phrase so how did people take it well because the reason I
1:11.2	was thinking on the spot was because somebody had to mess something up and not done the job very well and they're not very good at the job.
1:15.6	So, and I'm...
1:16.6	So people were on your side.
1:17.8	On my side and also I was... I had to say something.
1:20.8	But also like, it doesn't matter what the reason is you know I still
1:25.0	had to do it and I think it's very helpful to just sort of do it rather than just
1:29.2	express how you don't want to be doing it because then you spend a lot of time
1:32.3	thinking about why you're angry that you've got to do something yes you don't want to be doing it because then you spend a lot of time thinking
1:32.7	about why you're angry that you've got to do something. Yes. Rather than doing the
1:35.9	actual thinking, which will get into? Which will get into?
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