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Mar 22Liked by James Knox

I was usually nervous for public speaking because I was too lazy to be well prepared

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I think this is substantively different from what these people were doing.

These people practiced and had notecards and powerpoints and everything and were still freaked out.

It wasn't some deep desire for perfection (admirable) it was just weird ego impotence.

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