Starbeams come to you.

Welcome to Small Doses.

You know, we try to not do this too often

because it's better to, of course,

give you our brand new content every week

and we do our best to do that.

But ever so often, I find that there are times

where we have gone over something

in such a manner that people were really responsive to it

that I say, you know what, let's bring that back

with the remix.

The remix is me doing this thing at the top of the episode.

So we wanted to revisit side effects of communication.

I recently had a scenario go down

where I found myself in a disagreement with somebody

and I realized that my therapy had actually really kicked in.

And what the therapy had kicked in to do

was to help me have an economy of words

and a solidity in my ability to determine

whether or not this conversation

was gonna move in a direction of positivity and solution

or was gonna dissolve into argument and denigration.

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