528: How to Become Less Uptight in Two Minutes by David Cain of Raptitude

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🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. Episode 528: How to Become Less Uptight in Two Minutes by David Cain of Raptitude (Mindfulness & Relaxation). The original post is located here: http://www.raptitude.com/2016/11/how-to-become-less-uptight-in-two-minutes Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 528.
0:03.6	How to become Less Up Tight in 2 Minutes by David Cain of Raptitude.com and I'm Justin
0:08.3	Mollock.
0:09.3	Happy Monday and welcome to Optimal Living Daily, a podcast with a crazy idea of bringing
0:13.6	hundreds of blogs to audio for free, actually more like a thousand at this point across
0:17.9	all five of our shows.
0:19.6	And for now, let's hear another article from David Cain as we optimize your life.
0:28.1	How to become Less Up Tight in 2 Minutes by David Cain of Raptitude.com
0:33.9	The classic advice for public speaking nerves is to picture the crowd in their underwear.
0:38.9	I wonder if the person who invented that ever tried it.
0:42.2	I find it immediately increases the tension of a speaking situation and makes you more
0:46.2	aware of what's at stake, the possibility of embarrassment for the audience too.
0:51.3	What does work is to picture the room around you as it was at 4 a.m., empty and silent.
0:57.1	Nobody there to need any particular thing to happen or not happen.
1:01.1	This simple thought makes it clear that the room itself is harmless and so is speaking
1:05.3	into it.
1:06.6	Filling it with people changes that sense a little, but not so much that it feels dangerous.
1:11.4	The mental image of an inner room shrinks the prospect of speaking from a frantic story
1:15.5	in your mind down to its bare bones again, people in a room and one of them talking.
1:20.2	It becomes obvious that however the talk goes, life will continue afterward.
1:24.6	The room will be quiet again, with no trace of your forgotten lines or botched intro
1:29.2	if they even happened.
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