Lindsay McMahon

Yes, exactly.

It's good stuff.

So really creative here.

What's the next example?

huh don't call us we'll call you yeah so this this seems kind of mean almost this is yeah it's a mean right um yeah yeah so the person is saying like i'm being i'm really bad at soccer and i had no shots i made no goals i'm really feeling bad i probably wouldn't say it here right yeah yeah yeah

So you totally have a very good sense of humor about it, you know?

So there's a few things that we need here.

We need to know context about the person.

Like how many times have they tried this thing?

How do they feel about the importance of gaining mastery in this skill?

We need to know the tone that they've delivered this in.

And we need to know our relationship with them, right?

So if you pass the test on those three things, you could say these things, right?

You could say this, okay?

But not otherwise.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And that's that's always we always recommend that making fun of yourself first as a safe way to try out a phrase.

Right.

Yeah.