Dr. Alex George

And often someone's making a very, they might not even actually be criticizing you or they're making a very low level comment, but you're taking that hugely personally.

And then, you know, if you have been at all defensive, you go home and then ruminate about it for like three years or whatever it might be.

I mean, I remember a situation where...

Until this day, I think about it.

I remember actually a few years ago that someone came up to me in a bar and at the time, this is actually many years ago now, and I'd been drinking.

And this is just actually after I became known.

And this person came up and said, oh, I want to ask you a medical question.

They asked me this really complex question.

And I was like, why are they asking?

And they're like, do you know the answer?

And I was like, hey, you're just

I think you're just trying to like show me up or whatever.

Like, why are you asking that?

I was being friendly, but then they were kind of asking that way.

And anyway, it turns out that the person that asked me the question was a doctor.

And I was like, why would you ask that?

You're trying to like, what are you trying to do?

And I think they were just trying to make a joke.

And I think they were offended that I was then defensive.

And then I was then absolutely mortified for months later that I'd come across quite defensive and maybe even rude.