Constructive Embarrassment

embarssedmnky.jpgYou know those people who say they don’t care about what anybody else thinks? That humiliation doesn’t bother them ever? I hate those people (not that they care.) The reason why I get nervous every time I agree to speak publicly is because I know it’s a great opportunity for me to fall on my face. Most of the time it doesn’t happen, which is why I agree to do it, but it’s happened that it hasn’t worked out well and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t ruin my day, even my week.
Scott H. Young though argues that some embarrassment is good for you–and I agree at least in the case of my reading where two people showed up–that you can live through it and realize that it’s not as big as deal as you might have feared.
He has more on making embarrassment work for you here.

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